M.J. Rose

Whilst tempted to feel nostalgic for days long passed, remember that people actually wore these things…

The Corset X-Rays of Dr Ludovic O’Followell (1908)

The Public Domain Review

X-Ray images of women wearing corsets from the second volume of the French doctor Ludovic O’Followell’s Le Corset (1908). Although Dr O’Followell was clearly keen to show the damaging impact of corsets on women’s health, he did not actually want the corset to be abolished, but was simply trying to encourage a less severe design. Dr O’Followell in fact continued to write a regular column for the deluxe corsetier’s magazine Les Dessous Elégance…

x-ray of a corset

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