Tiny Corseted Waists of the Edwardian Era

If you research Edwardian fashion online for two minutes, you'll immediately find hysteria about the poor fainting women, oppressed by their corsets and struggling to breathe. This is due partly to all the photographs we have of women with exaggerated hourglass figures that many people today find unnerving. Then we tend to assume that the…

sometimes I think corsets are why it took women so long to catch up in society. Which is why I consider w…

Historical cotton corset: Edwardian overbust corset. Steelbone custom – Corsettery Authentic Corsets USA

Corset Amelia Marie

Tiny Waists and Steel Corsets: The Tough Body Expectations of the 1900s

Tiny Corseted Waists of the Edwardian Era

Tiny Corseted Waists of the Edwardian Era

Tiny Corseted Waists of the Edwardian Era

On record the smallest waist was..

edwardian Amelia Marie

edwardian Amelia Marie