The corsets also didn’t crush women’s internal organs like we’d assume something that, um, squishy would.
However, remnants of stupid remain:
The third myth is that this was something that men forced women to wear for their own viewing pleasure. Women chose to wear them for much the same reasons that women today get breast implants or liposuction: because of what it did for their figures.
Which men would then notice.
Jezuz.
