Do not be fooled – this dress may look flimsy but it is in fact a sophisticated and highly uncomfortable structure with a heart of steel. Or whalebone and leather more like.

      Ironically, when it came in 1900,  this new look was considered healthier and “more natural” (hahaha!) than the torturous hourglass one of the previous decades. So ladies! Push your chest forward and stick out your bum! Go for the new, wonderful S curve silhouette! Of course you have a corset to help you. And as the S shape is a real unanatomical bastard to push one into – it is one hell of a stiff corset. Scoliosis gratis. I mean people are not supposed to bend this way! This terrible, drooping chest, tits and belly becoming one mass, and hanging over a painfully narrow waist… brrrrr.  They called it a pidgeon brest, you know? How lovely. Fashionable ladies of that era were supposed to “ooze confidence”, and this one certainly does, despite being nearly sawn in half. Which doesn’t stop me from feeling extremely sorry for her back. I mean try standing in the s curve position for ten minutes, and THEN ooze confidence. Not.