Flic Everett
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/ 12 August 2005

Tyranny of fashion

When the bustle went out of fashion, the average woman must have felt joyously liberated, permitted as she was to stand and sit without a huge lump of horsehair wedged above her bottom. And when corsets were released, so that underwear no longer meant asphyxiation, she would doubtless have embraced the liberty bodice as a symbol of emancipation.