Corsets are infamous as torturous devices, specially designed to keep women in their place and helpless. But reality is a little more complicated than that, as it always is. This episode discusses:

• the origin of the corset


• the evolving function of the corset


• the 19th century corset


• how small could a woman go?


• who enforced this idea anyway?


• how bad for your health was it?


• where did the corset go?

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