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The Art of CorsetryCartoons |
Cartoonists have always enjoyed ridiculing human folly, and human vanity, as exhibited in fashionable clothing, has provided them with endless material. These examples are particularly relevant to our subject.
During the Victorian era both men's and women's clothing was particularly impractical. Women are almost always wore corsets, and fashionable men also frequently resorted to them to achieve the desired silhouette. Army uniforms were particularly impractical, and the brilliant colours of the British uniforms made their wearers sitting ducks in the Boer wars in South Africa.
The cartoon on the right makes fun of the extremes that women would go to to achieve the fashionable narrow waists. The caption is "A correct view of the new machine for winding up the ladies".
A most embarrassing job!
Not only does the miraculous garment on the right convert tummy flab into mammary tissue; it even tidies up the ladies hairstyle!
And some people can never resist an argument! |
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The Art of Corsetry Ed: Bunyip Bluegum |
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