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Originally Posted by shillelagh
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I'd like to go to that exhibition. It would be very interesting to see the types of underwear that women used to wear, whalebone corsets etc.
I believe that women wore them so tight they sometimes fainted as they couldn't breathe in enough air because their lungs were so packed in they couldn't expand enough.
We don't know we're born with the stuff we wear now.
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Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs, cackling and telling me
'You'll be next.' They stopped when I started doing the same to them at funerals.
