Waist training brings back a Victorian-era fad – Basement Medicine

The young adolescent girl’s already pale knuckles turn white as she wraps her fingers around the corner of her wardrobe, bracing herself. Her nurse, a large woman with a stern face, mercilessly yanks the ribbons of the girls’ corset. Again and again. Tighter and tighter. You watch the scene on your television from the comforts

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