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POP CULTURE FROM A SPIRITUAL POINT OF VIEW
BY Anonymous Page 3 Page 1 What's Wrong With Me? Page 2 The Steel Engraved Lady YOU ARE HERE>Page 3 The Corset Page 4 Illness as Fashion Page 5 The Voluptuous Woman 1 Page 6 The Voluptuous Woman 2 Page 7 The Gibson Girl, The Flapper, and Today
THE CORSET

THE CORSET Men have at times through history, added a little here and a little there to achieve a certain look. But men have never had to go through the pain of disfiguring themselves or altering their body shape to effect a culturally acceptable shape. This task has always been the fate of women. To this end the corset has served as woman's worst enemy. Since its invention the corset has had a starring role in the history of women and shape. It's application induces a regal posture and smaller feminized motions, perfect for the look of The Steel Engraved Lady, but at an extraordinary physical cost to the seeker of fashion. Corseted women could barely bend at the waist or take a deep breath without physical pain and trouble in breathing. Physically women were destroying their bodies trying to manufacture the perfect shape. Twenty to eighty pounds of pressure was exerted by the corset's squeeze upon the body. This pressure crushed and broke ribs, atrophied internal organs and muscles, weakened abdominal walls, led to neurasthenia, and caused the uterus to invert and protrude outside of the woman. The corset, accompanied by the bustle, really created a caricature image of a woman's body and drew attention to the procreative parts of woman's anatomy. This image of woman was not human but an object to obtain and to display for appearances. Corseted women sent the message that they were potentially suitable ornaments, with all the procreative possibilities demonstrated by an artificially enlarged bosom and pelvis. Continued Page 4 Illness as Fashion
"The eyes love fair and varied forms, and bright and soft colors. Let not these occupy my soul; let God rather occupy it, who made these things, very good indeed, yet is He my good, not they." -St Augustine
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