Health? I doubt it. Comfort? Definitely not. Perfect fit? Sure, just lace it up till your body fits it. I sincerely hope that children weren't made to wear these things. I expect that it would ruin their spine for life.
I looked through some of my costume books in hopes I would find a specific evidence. It does appear that children at least wore some sort of training corset, especially the girls. I also found this little tidbit on snopes.com that confirms this: http://www.snopes.com/horrors/vanities/ribs.asp There's a little blurb about 3/4 of the way down the article regarding children wearing corsets.
Many chiropractors advocate spinal manipulations for children for no good reason I can discern, so children's corsets aren't much of a stretch. (pun not intended)
Health? I doubt it. Comfort? Definitely not. Perfect fit? Sure, just lace it up till your body fits it.
ReplyDeleteI sincerely hope that children weren't made to wear these things. I expect that it would ruin their spine for life.
I've seen children's "training corsets" in museums before, so apparently they were made to wear them.
ReplyDeleteI looked through some of my costume books in hopes I would find a specific evidence. It does appear that children at least wore some sort of training corset, especially the girls. I also found this little tidbit on snopes.com that confirms this:
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There's a little blurb about 3/4 of the way down the article regarding children wearing corsets.
Thank you, shibori. Nice link.
ReplyDeletePhiladelphia's Mutter Museum has a display of corsets, including children's corsets and an adult female skeleton with corset-molded ribs.
ReplyDeleteMany chiropractors advocate spinal manipulations for children for no good reason I can discern, so children's corsets aren't much of a stretch. (pun not intended)
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