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'Wearing a corset is liberating!' Meet the woman living a modern-day Victorian life..
UK Daily Mail ^ | November 14, 2013 | Olivia Fleming

Posted on 11/14/2013 12:06:40 PM PST by C19fan

For more than 50 years, American women have cast off constrictive undergarments, which feminists have long criticized as symbols of repression. But for one Seattle resident, embracing the corset in the 21st century has been a tool of empowerment -- not oppression. For the last four years, 33-year-old Sarah Chrisman has not only worn a corset on a daily basis, she has also unabashedly embraced the 19th century, deciding to live a wholly Victorian-era lifestyle.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: babes; victorian
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To: Ditter
I believe FR guys would rate her "not guilty" if only for the financial assets, LOL


41 posted on 11/14/2013 1:26:00 PM PST by nascarnation (Baraq's 3rd term: squaw Warren? Lord help us!)
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To: Ditter

Not laughing at your suffering...laughing that somebody thought you were a ~guy~ strapped into a corset.

:D


42 posted on 11/14/2013 1:30:50 PM PST by Salamander (Blue Oyster Cult Will Be The Soundtrack For The Revolution.....)
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To: Ditter

Really? Prove it.


43 posted on 11/14/2013 1:34:32 PM PST by JSteff (It was ALL about SCOTUS.. We are DOOMED for several generations. . Who cares? The Dem's do & voted!)
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To: C19fan
I've never found them that comfortable, actually. But if you've already bought the high-heeled boots, the fishnet stockings, and the bull whip, whatchagonnado?

Wait - wrong forum. Do not hit Post button. Do NOT HIT POST BU

44 posted on 11/14/2013 1:38:31 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: nascarnation

Victorians were proper/prudish in public, but in private..sexual debauchery of all sorts was rampant..


45 posted on 11/14/2013 1:39:07 PM PST by ken5050 (Benghazi investigation update: "The plot thickens, like Hillary Clinton's ankles.." (longfellow")
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To: Ditter

” It pushed my intestines up and they crowded my lungs and I couldn’t breathe.”

...I would get so banned... :)


46 posted on 11/14/2013 1:41:17 PM PST by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: PLMerite

I wonder if ms. chrisman votes.


47 posted on 11/14/2013 1:47:51 PM PST by bicyclerepair (The zombies here elected alcee hastings (FL-20))
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To: jmacusa

“Why, he’s mending that bicycle using his bare hands!”


48 posted on 11/14/2013 1:49:49 PM PST by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: JSteff

My nic explains it all, Ditter is baby talk for sister. I am a 73 year old Texas woman. My brother who was 5 years younger than I, named me that when he first learned to talk. I am my Bubba’s Ditter. Is that good enough?


49 posted on 11/14/2013 1:54:20 PM PST by Ditter
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To: colorado tanker

From the “Devil’s Dictionary” by Ambrose Bierce:

Adamant, n. A mineral frequently found beneath a corset. Soluble in solicitate of gold.


50 posted on 11/14/2013 1:55:20 PM PST by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: ken5050

No doubt many were hypocrites, but others were quite sincere in their values. In my mind, it is better to have high standards and fail to live up to them, than to embrace debauchery as a virtue. The latter is far more socially corrosive.


51 posted on 11/14/2013 2:14:30 PM PST by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan

I agree with you. On the other hand, that doesn’t require tortuous undergarments: just self-respect.

The point of the corset was to be sexually desirable, the same as with present-day “shapewear.” Where a lady’s virtue or even household utility fits in the calculation, it’s hard to tell.


52 posted on 11/14/2013 2:58:29 PM PST by Tax-chick (It's like everyone has Attention Deficit Disorder, except for me.)
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To: C19fan

The Victorian era was from 1841 to 1904.


53 posted on 11/14/2013 3:38:54 PM PST by buffaloguy
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To: Ditter

Oh, I love Spanx! They’re not only for chubby folks. They’re just what’s needed for certain dresses, when you want to make sure no lines are showing, and everything is firm.


54 posted on 11/14/2013 6:27:05 PM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: PLMerite

Yes, you would, LOL


55 posted on 11/14/2013 6:27:32 PM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: colorado tanker

56 posted on 11/14/2013 6:32:54 PM PST by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: Ditter

Back in the day, we were made to wear panty girdles, no matter what the outside temperature. Underwear for formal dances included a Merry Widow corset. They were both miserable to wear. First thing I did after moving out on my own at age 20 was throw them out, although, to be honest, I hadn’t worn either since age 18 when I went away to college.

I am a small mesomorph who never weighed more than 125 when I was young and stay at about 130, now. My mother truly believed girdles, corsets, gloves and hose were essential clothing for all women at all times. It was a prevalent belief in the 1950s.


57 posted on 11/15/2013 6:24:55 AM PST by reformedliberal
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To: reformedliberal
You and I must be about the same age because I remember the same thing. I would never wear the panty girdle but I did wear a waist cinch. My waist was about 21 “ without it and about 19” with it. In other words I didn't need it. LOL! Wish I had a 21” waist now. :)
58 posted on 11/15/2013 6:30:56 AM PST by Ditter
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To: Straight Vermonter

What a proper Victorian lass. :-))


59 posted on 11/15/2013 10:31:59 AM PST by colorado tanker
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