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sosuperawesome · 11 months

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Embroidered Underbust Corsets // Rain And Roses on Etsy

#corsets #celestial #fashion #etsy

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diabloku · 1 month

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who would win? 👀

There's a poll on Twitter and I KNOW they'll be the finalists 🤔 but now who'd win the thing?

#vivziepop #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel fanart #hazbin hotel alastor #hazbin hotel lucifer #lucifer #helluvaboss #alastor #vivziepopfanart #corsets #their waists are SNATCHED #BUT who would YOU vote for? 👀#I drew this in an aggio lol

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marzipanandminutiae · 1 year

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in view of Netflix and a few other networks apparently announcing that they are no longer requiring actors to wear corsets/stays, but framing it as the ultimate in feminist allyship against an Oppressive Historical Torture-Garment (and presumably typing their press releases one-handed, if you catch my drift), I have a few things to say:

1. I presume they will also be condemning Spanx, dieting, weight loss surgery, obsessive exercise, breast or pectoral or ab implants, Flat Tummy Tea, editing actors’ bodies in post, etc. since this is all about promoting healthy body image. ...right?

2. Okay, this one is not tongue-in-cheek: if a costume designer forces you to wear massively uncomfortable stays or corsets and tells you your discomfort is an inherent feature of that garment type, they are lying. All the articles on this cited reports from actresses saying they threw up because of Regency stays or couldn’t eat in Edwardian corsets. And while I’m sure some of that is giving interview audiences the sensationalism they want to hear, I believe them in general.

Someone needs to tell them that that’s not normal.

I have worn corsets and stays a lot in my life. I know people who wear them as everyday support garments. And neither I nor anyone I know has been seriously hindered in normal activities by them. There are even photos and videos of women from corset-intensive eras climbing glaciers, playing sports, having snowball fights, doing manual labor...living their lives

Sure, there have always been and will always be people who find corsets or stays inherently uncomfortable- that’s why it’s good to have many support garment options available for people who need them. And there have always been and will always be ill-made, ill-fitting, or extreme examples of the type- I’m not saying corsets are always The Most Comfortable Thing Ever For Everyone, because that’s not universally true of any garment.

But these production companies have been hurting actresses under the guise of “historical accuracy,” and this latest pronouncement is just another attempt to shift the blame.

Don’t let them get away with it.

EDIT: Apparently the Official nature of the source for this announcement is in question, but the gist of the post still stands, so I’m leaving it up. Will edit further if new developments arise.

#netflix #period drama #historical fiction #bbc #itv #(those are the other networks mentioned in the articles)#dress history #fashion history #historical costuming #historical fashion #corsets #stays #rant #diet mention #disordered eating mention

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playing-with-red-hot-fire · 7 months

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#redhead #red head #red #corsets #black corset #red velvet #sexy redhair #sexy red head #red hairs #beautiful #sexy #beautiful women #beauty #lace corset

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yellow-yellow-jacket · 9 months

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avid historical fashion enthusiast here to remind you that corsets and stays were not created as ancient methods of torture.

sure, i am not going to deny that some women did tightlace their corsets — however, not everyone was struggling to breathe and fainting everywhere like fucking goats. part of a corset’s purpose was aesthetic and fashion, but it was also for support. most women still lived their lives, they weren’t just lying around being damsels in distress with itty bitty waists and zero lung capacity.

i just think it’s scary how hollywood has popularized the misconception that corsets are made to be tightlaced — for example, if someone who isn't well educated about historical fashions buys a corset for a costume, they might think it’s normal if they can’t breathe, and that’s dangerous. i cannot emphasize that enough.

when i was performing in a production of beauty and the beast earlier this year, some of the girls — my friends — were tightening their corsets to seriously dangerous extents, and that fucking scared me. i felt like a broken record telling them to loosen their corsets, but all they knew was pirates of the caribbean (that one scene pisses me off sO BAD) and bridgerton (i am NOT gonna start on the corset tightening scene in bridgerton s1, i do not need to get on that soap box).

if you read nothing else in this little rant of mine, read this:

if you cannot breathe while you are wearing a corset, something is wrong.

#historical fashion #fashion history #historical fiction #historical romance #corsets #19th century #this was brought on by a video i saw on instagram that aggravated me #o posts o'mine

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curioscurio · 3 months

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Reading a lot of Sherlock Holmes, and trying to draw victorian men accurately will lead you to learning that people wrote on their shirt cuffs often in ink because they were detachable and usually made of extremely starched linen or PAPER. working class men would find them stiff, overly formal, or not worth spending the money on it, but if you were mid to upper class then it was expected that you wear just as much complicated, sillohuete focused shapewear as women. Victorian men also wore corsets, especially military men, to achieve that puffy chest and flat stomach look around the 1820's.

The male corset fad had died down a little around the turn of the century (1880-early 1900's) as women fought for more comfortable and less oppressive shapewear, and effeminate men ridiculed for wearing the once fashionable and even medically recommended undergarmet. However, the male corset in the 1880's was still fairly popular enough to be advertised by dressmakers!

(Forgive me not citing my sources at the moment, but these advertisements I believe are dated around 1880 when mens corsets fell out of popular style but were still available and fashionable in certain circles.)

Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that Dr. Watson, being both a medical and military man... probably wouldn't have worn a corset at the time of his deployment around 1880, unfortunately. ( I know, we're all dissappinted.)

Not that he couldn't wear one if he wanted to! But based on ACD cannon, I really feel that he would not be the kind of guy to wear one. Call it speculation, but if I had been deployed and then shot in the shoulder and leg, wearing a corset would be all but torture on my body. Let alone trying to wrestle an injured soldier out of one while trying to stitch him up. Corsets for military men were more of a fashion statement than a medical device; and even then, it was only helpful for orthopedic reasons (back problems mostly).

It was also around that time that the Women's Dress Reform movement began. Despite the Sherlock Holmes novels being ripe with period-typical misogyny, I like to imagine that Watson would side with the women and medical professionals on this one, in that they were often restrictive, unnecessary, and medically harmful in the long run.

Sherlock Holmes, however, absolutely has a large variety of both male and female corsets for various disguises and probably wears them often. This isn't explicitly stated in canon or anything, I just feel it in my heart.

Sorry if this is all over the place or not completely accurate! I went down a rabbit hole but am totally open to any corrections! Also I think the idea of Watson lacing up Holmes and grumbling about corsets is a funny visual lol

#sherlock holmes #acd canon #john watson #corsets #acd holmes #acd watson #long post #also by all means draw watson in a corset #im not a cop or a fashion historian so do whatever you want lol #also im sure my good friend sergle knows way more about how corsets effect the body than me who has never worn one ever

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beggars-opera · 1 year

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I think all the drama over corsets would be a lot less if we stopped seeing them as a binary of either I'm Comfortable In One So They're Great or They Were Designed To Torture And Subjugate Women.

Think of them a little bit like shoes. Pieces of clothing that have a very important function, but they're going to run the gamut of comfort and the idea of not wearing them at all feels very anti-establishment altogether, even if a lot of people would be happier that way. There are ways of making shoes that don't pinch or mess up your legs, many of us choose not to wear them and instead go with heels because of fashion and dress codes. Tightly laced corsets are the stilettos of the 19th century; few people are going to go all the way and do themselves damage. Plenty of people are just wearing something snug but comfortable, and a decent number of people are walking around facing what we would consider mild discomfort and not really thinking that anything else is an option, because anything else isn't an option. Bras weren't invented yet, so if you wanted any support at all that's what you had.

I'm not saying that wearing an inherently restrictive piece of clothing like a corset is more comfortable than a modern bra. We're not accustomed to it, so obviously it feels foreign and uncomfortable to us. I'm saying that a bra isn't that comfortable either, and lacks some of the good features of a corset, like back support. But because bras are normal to us we don't judge them in the same way we do a corset. We spend a lot of time negating the agency of historical women without taking a good look in the mirror.

#history #fashion #victorian #corsets #this has been a ramble

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bdluv · 4 months

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