Ahh, the things we do for beauty, the things we wear for fashion. But it’s not just today that people are willing to bear the extra pain to be fashionable and trendy and beautiful.
In 1908, Doctor O’Followell’s Le Corset (The Corset) explored and showcased through x-rays, the nasty health consequences corsets caused on women’s bodies.
These are making me wince.
Le Corset 1908
Le Corset 1908
While others thought the images are only x-rays of women’s torsos with the corset painted on afterwards, many still believed these x-rays are as real as the harm corsets caused women.
Le Corset 1908
Compression and liver deformation by the corset
Le Corset 1908
Le Corset 1908
Fig. 25. – Thorax woman without corset / Fig. 26. – Thorax woman with corset
Le Corset 1908
Via Dangerous Minds