How corsets deformed the skeletons of Victorian women
. The view of corseting as having created short and painful lives is anachronistic, she says, as many of these women lived much longer than average for the time.and across different socioeconomic classes."Women wore corsets to shape their bodies away from nature and toward a more 'civilized' ideal form," Gibson explains, and"a woman would wear her corset for almost her entire life.
While scholars still debate the extent to which patriarchal control over women's bodies and women's own clothing choices affected corseting practices, it is clear that long-term use of these garments caused changes in women's skeletons. By looking at the variation in corsets and their physical effects on the spine, and correlating those observations with age-at-death, Gibson is rethinking the modern assumption that corsets were like painful torture devices.
Of the seven mounted skeletons that Gibson examined from the Musée de l'Homme, every single one of them had deformed ribs pushed into an 'S' shape and vertebral spines misaligned from vertical, both of which are"consistent with long-term pressure on growing ribs and vertebrae and inconsistent with other types of documented damage such as rickets," she notes.
Using more than a dozen historical corsets on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Gibson found that the average adult woman's waist size was 56 cm -- or 22 inches -- in circumference. Compared to a 2001 study of modern British women's bodies, this is more than 10 inches smaller than today!
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