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Example sentences for: corsets
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About 30 years ago I attended an exhibition of corsets at a great costume collection in Manchester, England.
Now that we have dismissed corsets as ridiculous instruments of torture, we can safely entertain a vogue for flesh-piercing jewelry.
Much later, during the progressive first quarter of this century, pierced ears for women became utterly unfashionable, a sign of Victorian bondage as abhorrent as whalebone corsets and the double marital bed.
Tight corsets never really hurt anybody--the fainting and the displaced organs are long-exploded myths--but fatal infection is a serious current horror.
Shakespeare in Love has authentic Elizabethan dress for everybody, but there's a good deal of extra emphasis on the way the period corsets flatten the breasts and strictly encase the ribs--and on how thrilling it is when the corsets come off.