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A corset is a close-fitting piece of clothing that has been stiffened by various means in order to shape a woman's (also a man's, but rarely) torso to conform to the fashionable
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Corsets - “Women must be submissive. Indeed what could most woremen do? Who had they to maintain them, but their husbands?”
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Who dictated that women should wear corsets? Men? Women? A combination of both? - Quora
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