1880's Undergarments Were Fashionable Torture

“You can always spy the wealthy ladies. They have the tiny middles, walk as if on tip toes and are always breathless to see me.” – Eadweard Muybridge, a Victorian era photographer. The wealthy ladies that Mr. Muy- bridge was speaking about were the society women of the 1880s, and the appearance he was describing was

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