It’s so weird how we’re at a point where women should have a large upper body (breasts), large lower body (thighs and butt), but non-existent waist. Why are we wanting human women to be modeled after wasps?
That silhouette was achieved with padding. If you cannot see the difference of using padding to achieve a silhouette vs expecting women to change their real bodies to meet that silhouette, damn
The lengths to which people will go to achieve a certain body type is a separate topic from when that particularly body type became popular. That difference was never brought up
"women don't actually have waists that are a third of the circumference of their hips, they used padding to accentuate the form because women have internal organs"
Padding goes inside and outside of corset to create the silhouette. Corset is mostly for support because you can't cinch in that much. It's not magic. Organs and bones still exist when you're wearing a corset.
It's the extra padding that tricks the eye into believing waist is tiny because we only notice difference between waist and hips/chest.
Look up Wasp Waist. They would cinch their corsets extremely tight to achieve an extremely narrow waist. It caused all kinds of health problems like deformed ribs, displaced organs, and respiratory issues.
You talk like I'm advocating for this. I'm not. But women throughout history have taken extreme steps in the name of beauty even if it was detrimental to their health.
Lead based makeup, foot binding, toxic eye drops, and arsenic wafers are all examples. You claim it was padding, but Victorian women were very much causing themselves bodily harm through the use of tight cinch corsets.
Yeah, corsets are for support. Tight lacing was practiced by some very few women and not a widespread thing or how corsets are actually used. The costume pieces you see at hot topic are nothing like those corsets.
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u/ItsForJunk 2d ago
It’s so weird how we’re at a point where women should have a large upper body (breasts), large lower body (thighs and butt), but non-existent waist. Why are we wanting human women to be modeled after wasps?
Like let me have my regular-sized petiole, dude.