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Criticisms of tightlacing

It is not clear how many women wore such bodices; however, the reformers' critique of the corset joined a throng of voices clamoring against tightlacing, the pursuit of the tiniest waist in the ballroom. Preachers inveighed against tightlacing; doctors counseled patients against it; journalists wrote articles condemning the vanity and frivolity of women who would sacrifice their health for the sake of fashion. Whereas corsetting was accepted as necessary for both beauty and health, tightlacing was viewed as vain and unhealthy. However, it was in many respects simply an intensification of ordinary Victorian fashions, and many of the images of feminine attractiveness that a Victorian woman saw around her (in fashion plates, advertisements, etc.) were depictions of highly-corseted women.

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