Corsets - “Women must be submissive. Indeed what could most woremen do? Who had they to maintain them, but their husbands?”

         A corset is a close-fitting piece of clothing that has been stiffened by various means in order to shape a woman's (also a man's, but rarely) torso to conform to the fashionable

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Corsets - “Women must be submissive. Indeed what could most woremen do? Who had they to maintain them, but their husbands?”

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