fattiesincorsets:

It’s been a joke amongst women for ages: the corset. That evil, constricting, painful thing we used to cinch our waists into nothing, all for the sake of attaining an impossible, ideal figure to attract (or keep) a husband. O, how it crushed our organs! O, those poor women who surgically removed their ribs to get into these things! O, why is there no male equivalent! O, we have to wear heels, too? Well, there is relief on the horizon for our sisters of centuries and decades past, for as it turns out, a lot of these beliefs about corsets being this horrifically terrible are somewhat exaggerated.