Does Wearing Corsets Make You 'Anti-Feminist'?

And then enter Fashion with a capital F. Fashion has always been drawn to the taboo, so what better garment to reinterpret than one branded 'anti-feminist' and medically proven to worsen your health? While Christian Dior's tightlaced 'New Look' took corsetry down the romantic route, other designers loosened the laces and made the garment a symbol of womanly empowerment and sexual liberation. The costumes Jean Paul Gaultier created for Madonna's Blond Ambition tour in 1990 included that now-iconic belted bustier with conical brad, and punk queen Vivienne Westwood used the corset as a key body-shaping element along with elevated shoes and crinoline. Fast-forward to the age of Miley Cyrus and underwear as outerwear, and corsets are definitely still a thing. See Scarlett Johansson on this month's Vogue Mexico,Six-foot-two and 330 lbs, Atlas might look like it could crush any Overbust Corsets manufacturers and suppliers in a cage-match. on Malgosia Bela in La Perla's Spring 2014 campaign, and on front-row fixture Dita Von Teese on the regular. 

Von Teese's average on-stage waist size is 19 inches, though she laced down to 16 with a fearsome lingerie dictator she calls an "official corset trainer" no word on whether he makes her do burpees.Other Victoriana enthusiasts — the ones who write about their passion rather than live it out in starchy crinolines and crotch-slit pantalettes — argue that corsets have always been about empowerment. In a post titled 'Wasp Waists and Feminist Debates,' blogger Alyssa makes the anti-anti-corsetry argument that stigmatization of lacing actually repressed a woman's right to control her own body and sexuality. This had a lot to do with a Victorian woman's utmost duty to bear and raise children, the high maternal mortality rate, and the growing desire to circumvent their gender roles rather than reinforce them. 

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