I Grew Up in a Corset. Time to Bust Some Myths. (Ft. Actual Research)

I accidentally wrote an essay whilst researching for my corset project, so enjoy. Stay tuned for the actual making adventures of said corset. SOURCES Arnold, Janet. “Patterns of Fashion 2: Englishwomen’s Dresses & Their Construction C. 1860 - 1940”, 1982. Bradfield, Nancy. “Costume in Detail: Women’s Dress 1730-1930”, 1968. Flower, B. O. “Fashion’s Slaves.”, 1892. https://archive.org/details/fashionsslaves00flow/page/n8 Flower, William Henry. “Fashion in Deformity”, 1881. https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=yTYZAAAAYAAJ&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA78 Kim, Alexandra and Mida, Ingrid. “The Dress Detective”, 2015. Langley Moore, Doris. “The Woman in Fashion”, 1949. O’Followell, Ludovic. “Le corset; histoire, médecine, hygiène”, 1908. https://catalog.nyam.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=217689 Schwarz, G. S. “Society, physicians, and the corset”, 1979. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1807654/ Steele, Valerie. “The Corset: A Cultural History”, 2003. Thomas, Theodore Galliard. “A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Women” (6th edition) 1892 https://books.google.com/books?id=3OHsADOwjH4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=galliard+thomas+practical+treatises+on+the+diseases&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwivh5mo2bLgAhWOwFkKHVHYCeIQ6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q&f=false (specifically the heading ‘Impracticalities of Dress’) The Toronto Daily Mail issue dated 5th May, 1883. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UP1MAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9jQDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4608,2577118 Measurement chart taken from ‘de