An idea popularized by Valerie Steele, author of The Corset: A Cultural History. Basically, when corsets went out of fashion, the periodic trend of tightlacing went internal. More specifically, women’s actual bodies began to bear the “responsibility” of having a smooth, slender, dramatically curvy silhouette with high and firm breasts.
In short, we’re made to believe all the body image problems of the corseted Dark Ages™ were solved by casting off our steels, even as modern society tells we should naturally look like we’re wearing still wearing the things- and lacing uncommonly, dangerously tight.
Internalized tight-lacing?
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