Corsets And Bustiers A Woman's Confinement

I do not know what anyone was thinking when they came up with the creations of corsets and bustiers. Someone had to have a deviant mind in order to think of making a corset. That thing had to be used as a torture device when they want to make people talk.



Corsets were an awful creation. These were made with heavy material which had to wear calluses on the body of the individual who had to wear them. In order to achieve even more rigidity bone and metal were used. This created "board-like" conditions in which a poor woman had to suffer.



We hear all the time about breast augmentations, face lifts, tummy tucks and stomach bands. These are all ways to engineer our bodies into what we "see" as excellence. We can eat better and train ourselves to achieve a higher level of standard but, we are never satisfied. It was the same then, as it is the same now.



Whether anyone want to admit the true or not, corsets were painful to wear. It had nothing to do with comfort level. Women were supposed to look like women, as the society, dictated. If ribs were squeezed so much as to cause a woman to use only the top part of her lungs to breathe, it mattered not. Presenting yourself in the proper manner was all that mattered.



Bustiers were not at roughly made as corsets were. The material was more meshed as opposed to the thicker, aggravating material used to make the corset. Bustiers seemed to cater more to the feminine body than the blistering corset.



I am not the variety of person who enjoys conforming to what is being dictated to me. I am more of a free spirit and enjoy doing what I like to do. And let's face it, back in those days, I do not think exercising and watching what you eat, were of great concern. Corsets were a way to alter the body as much as stomach banding and tummy tucks do in this age.



Now, to my original question. Will bustiers and corsets ever make a comeback? I think not. The reason being that many would not want to suffer in such a way. But, I ask this: do you not suffer when receiving a tummy tuck, stomach stapling, face lift, breast augmentation, and liposuction? Our belief is that they suffered way back then yet, we put our bodies through the same pain. Our way is surgical. Their way was physical.



All in all, I think of it like this: Corsets and bustiers served a purpose a long time ago. Whether I agree with the purpose is really insignificant. They were thought of as a way to give a woman that "womanly" figure and the whole of society accepted it. I am so thankful we do not have that mentality when it comes to the anatomy of a woman. But, we still expect women to have a certain look. Maybe we are not different than people of times past.





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