Tag Archives: bones

The X-Rays were ‘Doctored’ – Gibson’s Newest study exposes O’Followell’s Le Corset as a hoax

Summary (TL;DR) Gibson states that the Le Corset (1908) does not stand the test of [...]

04
Sep
Lucy modeling the waist training wasp waist underbust corset by "Heavenly Corsets" in red satin coutil; the lacing gap makes a bowed parentheses shape in the back of the corset is smaller in the waist than Lucy is capable of closing, and the lacing steels are very flexible, not staying straight in their channels.
How to Correct a “Bowing” Corset

In the past, I’ve discussed various reasons why your corset may be bowing (giving the “()” [...]

05
Jan
A Victorian illustration, on the left side shows a fictional "X-ray view" of the Venus de Milo, with the caption "The Ideal Female Body". On the right side is another fictional X-ray view of a woman with a tapered rib cage, with the caption "Deformed by Tight Corsetting".
Corsets and Skeletal Deformities: Anthropological Study

In September 2015, The Canadian Student Journal of Anthropology (Nexus) included an anthropological study of [...]

05
Oct
WAIST TRAINING RESULTS: How long should it take?
May 26, 2014

  Here’s a question I receive nearly every day: “My natural waist is 30 inches, [...]