BBC - Spain resizes clothes for women

Spain is to overhaul its clothing sizes for women as part of a government drive to ease pressure on young girls over their body size.

So the corset. Originally wood, evolved into whalebone. Whalebone, by the way, cracks. So not only do the things make you faint because you can’t breathe, but assuming your lungs can function, you still need to worry about one of them being punctured. But anyway, Spain took corsets seriously. And I mean seriously. They wore metal ones. Then they doubled them up. Legendary, the Spanish waist.

Just sayin’.

Date: Jan 25th, 2007 · Comments RSS · Tags: People and Current Events