[Sca-cooks] Re: Sca-cooks digest, Vol 1 #3335 - 13 msgs

[Nancy Kiel]

And Elizabethan corsets or "bodies" aren't meant to reshape the figure as
are later ones.  Laura Ingalls Wilder (late 1800s) talks about her mother
and sister sleeping in their corsets, which I don't think Elizabethans did.



Nancy Kiel
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Never tease a weasel!
This is very good advice.
For the weasel will not like it
And teasing isn't nice.





>From: <jenne at fiedlerfamily.net>
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
>Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Re: Sca-cooks digest, Vol 1 #3335 - 13 msgs
>Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 08:42:17 -0400 (EDT)
>
> >    I own 2 corsets that date about 1860's(Civil War times).  After being
> > strapped and squeezed into one for a week of reenactments there is no
>way I
> > would want to wear on everyday.  There is an old saying among Civil War
> > women "if you can breath it is not tight enough".
>
>But the corsets of the 1860s are very different from Elizabethan corsets
>in their function. Elizabethan corsets were not intended to compress the
>waistline as much as to support the bust. They are not worn tightly enough
>to rearrange the internal organs!

>-- Jadwiga


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