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A cage you choose, squeezing the breath out of fashion and lungs alike.
rib realityTight-lacing could permanently reshape, not remove, ribs
male wearersVictorian men wore corsets for posture and waist
comeback queenResurges every era as rebellion, then restriction, then rebellion again
breathing taxCould reduce lung capacity by roughly twenty percent
war casualtyWWI steel shortages helped kill mass corset production