
Bloomers and Beyond: A History of Underwear
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Women in Corsets - What Are We Going to Do Now?
Corset saleswoman became really important. You needed to be a specialist. The un-corseted figure being slovenly. But sometimes experts were even drawn into this discussion. Havlok Ellis, who was cited by the corset manufacturers' association, is claiming that women had to be corseted. And he even said, quote, the corset is morphologically essential. So this just made me think. What are we going to do? We've been putting women in corsets forever. Almost. Time for a new style is that happening?"
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