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  • @AbsoluteHistory
    @AbsoluteHistory  2 ปีที่แล้ว +233

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  • @kyerradavis858
    @kyerradavis858 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6578

    It’s sad how I can watch stuff like this on my own but when my teachers assigns a video like this I can’t stand to watch it

    • @sky1786
      @sky1786 3 ปีที่แล้ว +154

      SAME

    • @Whol3NothaL3v3l
      @Whol3NothaL3v3l 3 ปีที่แล้ว +615

      Because the teachers try to control what should be your "takeaway", instead of just letting you watch something and discuss it from whatever perspective you want.

    • @dreamystone
      @dreamystone 3 ปีที่แล้ว +368

      @@Whol3NothaL3v3l That's surprising. I grew up in Greece, and critical thinking was extremely encouraged. Arguing your position properly, without resolving to the use of fallacies was the key, whether or not your position was controversial.
      My final religion exam had questions about abortion and euthanasia and I was furious, because I knew what the teacher (who was a priest) wanted me to say. But I didn't. I wrote my opinions and made sure my arguments were solid and walked out of that classroom ready for battle if I got a bad grade. But I ended up with a good grade, and the teacher even handed out little laminated icons of Mary and baby Jesus, with a blessing on the back, to everyone graduating that year. And even though I'm not religious, or even like organized religion, I've kept it in my wallet ever since. Because it's a nice reminder that you can just agree to disagree and still be respectful.
      Anyway, my point was, if they don't encourage making up your own mind in your school system, that's really messed up. That's where repression and misplaced hatred comes from.

    • @bONjouRpUtA
      @bONjouRpUtA 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Fr

    • @pum8661
      @pum8661 3 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      @@dreamystone it really depends, I remember doing the International Baccalaureate, which even though it boasted about “thinking outside the box” and critical analysis. If you even dared to go out of their checklist criteria, you would fail.
      I’m pretty glad I managed to pass it but its still pretty bad how it ruined my thought process into a more robotic and less free thinking one.

  • @utah133
    @utah133 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2507

    Back in the 1950's my grandmother warned me away from playing with an old green window blind. I doubt it was arsenic laden, but she had the knowledge passed down about green things, apparently.

    • @Miko-pf1jn
      @Miko-pf1jn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Venus Angelic: The Living Doll

    • @amnedits4898
      @amnedits4898 3 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      That’s crazy! It must’ve been a thing where people feared the colour green!

    • @leod.4401
      @leod.4401 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      Better safe than sorry...

    • @MissPickles1980
      @MissPickles1980 3 ปีที่แล้ว +94

      @@amnedits4898 Green is "unlucky" for exactly this reason (arsenic). My MIL hates anything in the house - wallpaper, paint etc. - that's green because it's "unlucky". She was born in the early 50's, so she probably has the superstition without knowing why.

    • @nicelyput299
      @nicelyput299 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@MissPickles1980 I wonder if it's inherit. I hate green in my house

  • @pritamchy8328
    @pritamchy8328 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4232

    The last line what Suzannah said "It makes me wonder what we're oblivious to today" is exactly what I've been thinking throughout the whole documentary.

    • @fawnieee
      @fawnieee 3 ปีที่แล้ว +102

      I wouldn't say oblivious, more hidden by greedy capitalists to ensure products continue to sell with the cheapest of materials for maximum profit.

    • @oldyeller6518
      @oldyeller6518 3 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      How about during covid? Simple cheep meds like hydroxycloroquin being vilified

    • @Duda-du
      @Duda-du 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      I think stuff like toxic fumes and global warming 100 years from now if a solution was found people would wander how did we live like this

    • @arisu9085
      @arisu9085 3 ปีที่แล้ว +95

      One thing common to us now that i imagine could be quite outrageous in the future is plastic, more specifically due to microplastic everywhere

    • @mj-f7135
      @mj-f7135 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Pfas
      Forever chemical
      They're in nonstick pan.

  • @strwwb3rry
    @strwwb3rry 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8377

    Imagine 100 years from now, there will be a documentary on "How Phone and Social Media Addiction led to Depressed and Early Deaths of the Millenials", I can't even imagine old pictures of us with filters lol

    • @yourmissright7
      @yourmissright7 2 ปีที่แล้ว +107

      *dead*

    • @clarisermiller769
      @clarisermiller769 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Lol

    • @tinkabell39
      @tinkabell39 2 ปีที่แล้ว +189

      Lol...thought the same when I was watching another documentary, about how future generations would talk about us and what kind of filters would describe our time..

    • @juliathigpen7070
      @juliathigpen7070 2 ปีที่แล้ว +201

      How will we explain memes and our broken humor

    • @yahbeng
      @yahbeng 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      OMG LMAO

  • @75Veritas
    @75Veritas 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2915

    In college literature class we read "The Yellow Wallpaper" which told the story of a woman confined to a room due to her deteriorating mental health. It was covered with arsenic laced wallpaper. It was her demise rather than her mental health.

    • @timmydirtyrat6015
      @timmydirtyrat6015 5 ปีที่แล้ว +197

      God, that's depressing.

    • @megannwalsh
      @megannwalsh 5 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      This was the first thing I looked up seeing this video. I’m glad someone else thought of it too.

    • @FrauWilhelmKlink
      @FrauWilhelmKlink 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Wait, what? I’m seriously about to go look that up right now!

    • @missyoothoudt8243
      @missyoothoudt8243 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Who wrote that? I do remember reading that story.

    • @paulainthehills
      @paulainthehills 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@missyoothoudt8243 Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  • @carrioncrow13
    @carrioncrow13 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1484

    Hey, I just noticed at 34:05 when I was pausing to read the newspaper article ... it says that several people suffocated from gas, but one man and his child were saved by their dog, whose scratching at the door woke the man up just in time.
    Moral: Be good to animals. They might just save your life.

    • @Seawitch555
      @Seawitch555 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Maddi Silver ok maddi

    • @ThePwaro
      @ThePwaro 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Did you spot the "Heating Ipsum dolor sit amet" on the central heating diagram? 36:53

    • @twistedyogert
      @twistedyogert 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Don't know if my mom's 10 year old arthritic Labrodoodle would make a good guard dog but I'm sure he loves her.

    • @ZerokillerOppel1
      @ZerokillerOppel1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Be always good to animals!!! Even if they don't save your life later.

    • @ZerokillerOppel1
      @ZerokillerOppel1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Adam Smith Ok..you said the exact same thing 2 weeks ago...🤭😅😅

  • @warriorcatskid003
    @warriorcatskid003 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5980

    Ok but arsenic does make a very pretty green

    • @aihara2799
      @aihara2799 5 ปีที่แล้ว +193

      Audrey the cat nerd a price to pay for salvation

    • @connersuxx
      @connersuxx 5 ปีที่แล้ว +189

      I’d pay for a deadly dress that color

    • @r.awilliams9815
      @r.awilliams9815 5 ปีที่แล้ว +245

      Oddly enough, the same chemical used in the wallpaper (copper (II) acetoarsenate) burns a very pretty blue color when used in pyrotechnics formulas.

    • @kimwong305
      @kimwong305 5 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      @@r.awilliams9815 interesting.

    • @r.awilliams9815
      @r.awilliams9815 5 ปีที่แล้ว +118

      @@kimwong305 The fireworks industry hasn't used it for many years, there are far less toxic alternatives now. Some amateur pyros still experiment with it, but quickly come to the same conclusion I did...it makes a nice color, but nothing that can't be duplicated with less toxic chemicals.

  • @TheJoyNinjaNZ
    @TheJoyNinjaNZ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2159

    I just wanted to point out that in your discussion around corsets you forgot to mention that woman wore PADS on their busts and hips to create the 'ideal shape' - in this way most people got the shape without endangering their health through tight lacing. In fact, there are many costume historians (Bernadette Banner for example) who have proved that women who tight-laced were very rare indeed.

    • @somenightsidontknow3762
      @somenightsidontknow3762 3 ปีที่แล้ว +126

      Well she did say it was the minority that was doing it

    • @m3lan156
      @m3lan156 3 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      YESSSS we need more people to understand this

    • @pandamandimax
      @pandamandimax 3 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      She literally said "a minority of women" did it.

    • @ToweringPsychic
      @ToweringPsychic 2 ปีที่แล้ว +141

      @@pandamandimax Minority and very rare are 2 different things. Like 1 in 10 can be a minority , while very rare has to be something less than 1 in a 1000..

    • @Eswyfe
      @Eswyfe 2 ปีที่แล้ว +84

      I've seen that padding and corsets in person, My Great, Great Grandmother was born 1863, when she passed her Victorian era clothing was stored away and when I was a young child I was up in my Great Grandmothers attic (Born 1898) playing and looking thru the old steamer trunks- It was a like a Victorian Era museum- beautiful clothing, shoes, hair ornaments and the underthings, the padding was dry rotted though no bad but you could tell it was very old- If I knew then what it would be worth now-This was 1980-1985 time frame so the clothing would have been approx 120-130 years old.

  • @Dylanquinn666
    @Dylanquinn666 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4011

    To be fair, those patterns are to die for.

  • @n3rdy11
    @n3rdy11 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3630

    It's weird how easy it is for us to go: "Haha people back then were so stupid!", when 200 years from now people will look back at our current way of living and probably come to the very same conclusions about us.

    • @raemann7529
      @raemann7529 4 ปีที่แล้ว +194

      Such as: Plastic food containers; baby powder(talc); “enriched” flower; etc.

    • @emmacat3202
      @emmacat3202 4 ปีที่แล้ว +207

      Plus, our crazy surgeries for cosmetic purposes that use silicone implants.

    • @brinna7712
      @brinna7712 4 ปีที่แล้ว +89

      Daclunator I wasn’t alive in the 80s but I remember being little early 2000s and people were still pressing on save the trees use less paper then, the movement just disappeared

    • @traceyreed4885
      @traceyreed4885 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      If we last that long

    • @MeganOHowe
      @MeganOHowe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      yes but people today already think the same thing! like I can guarantee almost nobody has heard of the documentary Overpriced or the upcoming documentary Antimatter Future. I rest my case lol people 200 years from now might even watch those films like historical reference, Overpriced was uploaded December 2016 and exposed the carbon tax as a scam wtf its 2020 still a media BLACKOUT Trudeau INCREASED the carbon tax during a pandemic. my upcoming film Antimatter Future has solutions as well so we can develop tech and spaceships that would otherwise be in 2300!

  • @heidiscarrott9183
    @heidiscarrott9183 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2284

    I find the Victorian era fascinating but rather creepy at the same time.

    • @fuzz6263
      @fuzz6263 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      same

    • @HJules-cw6fb
      @HJules-cw6fb 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      That is what what niche and cliche groups are into. Many sub-cultures embrace and see it that way as well. Like all the drawings with skeleton people in the video. Goth and Steampunk specifically, draw some elements of that time frame. Its interesting. Check this out:
      Steampunk Society of Nebraska. 615 Steampunks | Omaha, USA. ...
      Riverside Dancing Meetup. ...
      Victorian Tea Society of Orange County. ...
      Victorian Fencing Society. ...
      The Calgary Steampunk Assemblage. ...
      Lewis Carroll Society Meetup. ...
      Keepers of Goldfish Pond. ...
      Central Library Athenaeum Steampunk Book Club.

    • @mikefay5698
      @mikefay5698 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I find all the past horrific!

    • @ravenel2
      @ravenel2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      Don’t research Victorian death photos! The poor people had no photographs of their children, so if a child died, the grief-stricken parents would take the body to the local photographer and prop them up on a sofa as if they were sitting up. There are books of these photos-called Sleeping Beauties. Some you cannot even tell the child is dead, and others are truly creepy.

    • @valacarno
      @valacarno 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      And that's the dreary beauty of it.

  • @Lionnlegacy9
    @Lionnlegacy9 3 ปีที่แล้ว +863

    For a more accurate description and discussion of the effect of corsetry on the human body, I would recommend checking out Karolina Zebrowska and Bernadette Banner. Both are fashion historians and have done extensive research (with personal experience) into corsetry. Tightlacing (what has so frequently been misconstrued as "the only method of corsetry") is what we find so distressing today, but was not nearly as widespread as it is commonly made to seem

    • @kylavanriper1716
      @kylavanriper1716 2 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      I so agree. It's ridiculous to think working women would have done anything to prevent them from earning a living.

    • @katiedid7231
      @katiedid7231 2 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      I want to second the recommendation of Bernadette and Carolina, and add Abby Cox, who has done some excellent videos on corsets.

    • @AndersWatches
      @AndersWatches 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      I legit only clicked onto this video to comment that they didn’t lmao

    • @alessandra_lavandaire5965
      @alessandra_lavandaire5965 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      It is not to my knowledge,at the present time, if she made a reportage about this particular topic..however I would vividly suggest even Mina Lee

    • @laurahinrichsen3917
      @laurahinrichsen3917 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@AndersWatches same haha. I was just checking to make sure people were breaking this myth if not, I would have had to 😂

  • @KimberlyNaegele-fy5lg
    @KimberlyNaegele-fy5lg 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2344

    Yeah but you see with a nice tight corset you can’t breathe in the poison in the green colored wallpaper! Get it?

    • @theapterousbird
      @theapterousbird 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      😂👌

    • @The_DuMont_Network
      @The_DuMont_Network 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Silly me... Of course!

    • @pog.fr0g637
      @pog.fr0g637 5 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Kimberley Naegele ~ Of course, a nice garment that restricts my breathing will stop me from inhaling the deadly poison that I have painted my walls with!!!

    • @ronch550
      @ronch550 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Brilliant!! 😆

    • @pog.fr0g637
      @pog.fr0g637 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @B.D. Mercer I know. I was just joking Lmao 😂

  • @finnsuglycorner2099
    @finnsuglycorner2099 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3443

    I love this series because it’s just like, “check out how disgusting we used to be haha, they all died bruh”

    • @kumaahito3927
      @kumaahito3927 3 ปีที่แล้ว +226

      @@ciciwoods4556 just like she said at the end of the video: We're probably doing a lot of unsafe things even today that'll be discovered later and made safer.

    • @dayanaluik4044
      @dayanaluik4044 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@ciciwoods4556 That’s what I’m thinking right now 😓

    • @Nope-i6j
      @Nope-i6j 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      I bet vaping will end up being toxic in like 20 years and a whole generation will die.

    • @ella_cinder4361
      @ella_cinder4361 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      Vaping has already been deemed more dangerous than tobacco!!

    • @Bri-lk7re
      @Bri-lk7re 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@ella_cinder4361 Natural selection then

  • @lisemartino2445
    @lisemartino2445 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1901

    I remember being taught a fantastic Victorian nursery rhyme.
    “Last night the kitchen boiler burst
    And Father cursed and cursed,
    But Mother, with a kinder feeling
    Scraped the housemaid off the ceiling.”

    • @Muzikrazy213
      @Muzikrazy213 5 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      Jfc

    • @crocus8080
      @crocus8080 5 ปีที่แล้ว +139

      Oh my god I hate how funny I find thay

    • @Offshoreorganbuilder
      @Offshoreorganbuilder 5 ปีที่แล้ว +403

      "Last night, the stove gassed all the kids,
      And father cried, 'What! no pan-lids?',
      But mother answered, 'Yes, indeed,'
      'And now, there's five mouths less to feed.'"

    • @flynnthetrashbin8274
      @flynnthetrashbin8274 5 ปีที่แล้ว +263

      Let's be honest the victorians spit mad bars

    • @tamlandipper29
      @tamlandipper29 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      My godfather taught me that one!

  • @Climbacliffandjumpoff
    @Climbacliffandjumpoff 3 ปีที่แล้ว +487

    Just wanna say, that not everyone wore corsets this tight. Women do used to do sports such as tennis and climbing with them on. Tight lacing was a problem though.

    • @Climbacliffandjumpoff
      @Climbacliffandjumpoff 3 ปีที่แล้ว +101

      Also the pictures of corset waist are edited. The the Victorians were famous for doing so.
      You can find a few videos on this.

    • @callmeaspen3868
      @callmeaspen3868 3 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      Their photoshoping skills were legendary and corsets certainly werent oppression tools either because men didnt like them and made fun of them. Tight lacing (as you said) was a problem but only in the very richest who could afford a little mosr discomfort vut tight lacing certainly wasnt practised outside of a small majority and certainly not from the working class. Im glad to have found another person who knkws the truths of corsetry.

    • @Climbacliffandjumpoff
      @Climbacliffandjumpoff 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@callmeaspen3868 Finally. Thank you

    • @Climbacliffandjumpoff
      @Climbacliffandjumpoff 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@callmeaspen3868 there is a youtuber called karolina zebrouski (i think) who covers this.

    • @Chocolatemozart_
      @Chocolatemozart_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@Climbacliffandjumpoff karolina zebrowska*

  • @partygarnele2405
    @partygarnele2405 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3639

    "how much poison do you want?"
    Victorians: "Yes"

    • @patriciabarkley735
      @patriciabarkley735 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Good one! 😹😹😹

    • @annking8633
      @annking8633 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @ckydafm
      @ckydafm 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      More like:
      “How much do you want to die?”
      Victorians: “Yes”
      Lol

    • @boorave
      @boorave 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I got this video on my recommendations after watching how Victorian kids died due to lead poison 💀

    • @legendofthephasor9648
      @legendofthephasor9648 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Victorian people:Let's kill children with toys to see if there smart
      Other Victorian people:YES SO SMART THIS IS IDEAL

  • @ericcrites3389
    @ericcrites3389 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4704

    Imagine how depressing it would be to be a 5 year old child working in a factory making toys you could never play with.

    • @KLanio-lr8yv
      @KLanio-lr8yv 4 ปีที่แล้ว +812

      You can ask kids in Bangladesh these days

    • @ashrub1506
      @ashrub1506 4 ปีที่แล้ว +177

      K. Lanio spiting facts

    • @FellowTravelerVlog
      @FellowTravelerVlog 4 ปีที่แล้ว +134

      ꧁ঔৣ Eric Crites ঔৣ꧂ well it’s probably for the best since the toys caused lead poisoning

    • @ericcrites3389
      @ericcrites3389 4 ปีที่แล้ว +113

      @@FellowTravelerVlog agreed! But wouldnt they still die or atleast have a high risk of dying?

    • @SpicyCupcak3
      @SpicyCupcak3 4 ปีที่แล้ว +149

      ꧁ঔৣ Eric Crites ঔৣ꧂ absolutely! People in factories had it the worst in the Victorian days in my opinion.. them an women being thrown into the Looney hospital for having pms. Look up Radium girls.

  • @LilMizRandom09
    @LilMizRandom09 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1099

    "We don't want people thinking our products are bad. Who cares if there is any proof that it is killing people, Keep selling!!"
    Big companies never change do they...

    • @feartheghus
      @feartheghus 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      You guys have very warped views and lack of knowledge

    • @janicerowe7902
      @janicerowe7902 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      WarmMilk or do the consumer that buys them....

    • @Youtube.Commen-tater
      @Youtube.Commen-tater 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fearghus Keitz Sweet refutation

    • @user-nb8yt2il2r
      @user-nb8yt2il2r 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      As long as you can afford to not have your own wallpaper who cares?

    • @BlackStarSymphony
      @BlackStarSymphony 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Nope.
      Case and point: Let's put a lot of sugar in every product and keep selling it even if people get obese, get diabetes and die. More money for us!
      Sugar is 8x more addictive than cocaine and that why we keep buying our Oreos and cheesecakes. Most of us are sugar addicts. I wonder when people we finally open their eyes.

  • @carmenlye25
    @carmenlye25 3 ปีที่แล้ว +699

    corsetry is so much more complex and it's definitely worth looking into it through a fashion historian. It's a true art in how they are hand-stitched with whalebone to fit the curves of an individual's body, but it's often assumed that corsets were the thing to hurt people, not people tightlacing them, against the natural flow of their body. Many people talk about corsets as an oppressive commercial scheme, but the hatred and vilification of corsets was just as much about profit.
    Not to mention: beauty standards for women are constantly changing, tiny waists were definitely not always the norm and the desire.

    • @starfakename9293
      @starfakename9293 3 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      yeah honestly ive owned a couple corsets since high school and they are not necessarily the torture devices people act like they always were?? they dont fit anymore since i had a kid and i genuinely miss the back support and postural help, lmao, im top-heavy and bras simply arent enough sometimes
      yeah tight-lacing is bad, but comparing all corsets to tight-lacing corsets is like comparing a sensible ankle boot with a one-inch heel to a seven-inch strappy stiletto, i feel like-- both may be unnatural to the form of the body, but one of em'll do a heck of a lot more damage than the other, and it's disingenuous to pretend otherwise

    • @ruthfannin9990
      @ruthfannin9990 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Î9mv

    • @pettylilthing
      @pettylilthing 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@starfakename9293 yes plus I like corset they help with back pain and posture they also help with stomachache sometimes I really wanna get some

    • @MarvinClarence
      @MarvinClarence 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@sharonsplat Not all corsets in the Victorian era are like the ones described in this video. Some were even only a tightened piece of cloth.

    • @Iflie
      @Iflie 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Anything that is stopping your belly from expanding is unhealthy as you need bellybreathing to steady your nerves and it's how you are meant to breathe. basically unless your corset is loose it's bad for you. Any reduction in waist is going to come at the expense of a space you need. Even one of the defenders of the corset Bernadette Banner who had a medical corset still doesn't like feeling full and eats small quantities and she's railthin. Because eating in the corset would be uncomfortable. That's not healthy in the least.

  • @willavclem
    @willavclem 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2564

    "I spend hours in the morning getting into my corset"
    *bernadette banner and karolina zebrowska have left the chat*

    • @Jennifer.villezcas
      @Jennifer.villezcas 4 ปีที่แล้ว +225

      Exactly 😂 I have been wearing corsets for years, not even when I started wearing them did I take hours. 😑

    • @13animerox
      @13animerox 4 ปีที่แล้ว +196

      Was legit going through the comments to see if anyone was gonna mention Bernadette!

    • @tamara6360
      @tamara6360 4 ปีที่แล้ว +114

      I wonder what Bernadette would say about it, having her video in mind where she references the various types of coursets that existed.

    • @danithefiend6167
      @danithefiend6167 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      I love both of them!

    • @oisincasey3710
      @oisincasey3710 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      It was time for the fashion historians to leave, they had seen enough bs already-
      Jk

  • @stratosphere94
    @stratosphere94 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2812

    “The main problem was that they didn’t understand the dangers of what they were doing”
    ~ Victorian period in a nutshell

    • @HeyItsRemi
      @HeyItsRemi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Dani Stratosphere as I read this comment this exact part of the video played. 😂

    • @kyriacrosszeria
      @kyriacrosszeria 4 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      Dani Stratosphere *humanity at any time period, in a nutshell.

    • @vanyadolly
      @vanyadolly 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      @@Books_Makeup Yes, the environment. It's not that we get smarter so much as we just find new things to be dumb about.

    • @ThatClassic70sGirl
      @ThatClassic70sGirl 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@vanyadolly Like smartphones, perhaps? :) Or maybe body-piercings (9:31)

    • @carrabosse
      @carrabosse 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@kyriacrosszeria EXACTLY this.

  • @___KIT__
    @___KIT__ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3460

    There’s a difference between “wearing a corset” and “tight lacing a corset”

    • @elliottlupin
      @elliottlupin 4 ปีที่แล้ว +658

      Thank you! This is not mentioned enough. If you tight laced a corset, you were showing off for a formal occasion. Besides, women wore corsets day in, and day out, for centuries with minimal complaints. There are also people today that wear corsets rather constantly and find them completely comfortable.

    • @cloclop
      @cloclop 4 ปีที่แล้ว +490

      I've been looking for someone mentioning this. I always cringe a little when people start talking about corsets because they seldom discuss them as how they were actually worn... Only about tightlacing and how they were "torture devices" when they were nothing of the sort when worn properly...

    • @Mia-ln1zs
      @Mia-ln1zs 4 ปีที่แล้ว +133

      Everything in this comment chain was, in fact, mentioned.

    • @cloclop
      @cloclop 4 ปีที่แล้ว +138

      @@Mia-ln1zs from my viewing of that segment one person mentioned these things which is good, but the rest of the people focused on the negative and shocking aspects of it and (to me anyway) made it seem as if it was more common

    • @austenhead5303
      @austenhead5303 4 ปีที่แล้ว +210

      @Jenavieve Hottenstein I wouldn't defend corsets by comparing them to high heels - high heels are awful for your feet. The more you wear them, and the more you weigh (you don't have to be fat, just tall instead of petite), and the higher they are, the worse they are for you. Generations of women have destroyed their feet with high heels and otherwise inappropriate footwear. Hallux valgus is an example of what comes of wearing bad shoes for most of your life. To not mention the joint and back problems.
      I think heels are really pretty too, and I used to wear them a lot, but I'm choosing flat, roomy and comfortable these days. Room to stretch out and wiggle your toes, good arch support, good shock absorption.
      That said, I think corsets - when laced only tight enough to lift your boobs and gently hug your middle, which is to say: comfortably - would probably have been quite good for your back. Good support, and constant posture corrector. But of course people wouldn't have left it at that.

  • @susanross1651
    @susanross1651 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    My grandmother was born in 1893, she always wore a corset, she did have a prolapse & as an old woman she said she couldn’t stand up straight & walk about without a corset. Listening to my grandmother it may be a case that only a few women tightened their corsets to the extreme, but they certainly did wear them tight or there was no benefit to wearing them. It certainly does answer the question as to why ladies were always swooning & fainting in old novels.

  • @kingjames4886
    @kingjames4886 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1309

    "is it safe for you to touch?"
    "probably not" continues to flip through book

    • @Jeeeliiiziiizzz
      @Jeeeliiiziiizzz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Lol Victorians just find so many ways to die

    • @Arterexius
      @Arterexius 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      There are two kinds of scientists. Those who worship safety as a religion and those who only uses it when most necessary. The guy with that book and I are of the last kind

    • @addys_life7292
      @addys_life7292 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lol

    • @yes0r787
      @yes0r787 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No wonder they all are dead.

    • @marp4735
      @marp4735 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      king james488 and breath in. Oh I’ll wash my hands after this. Don’t think that’s how it works, doesn’t it come in through the skin? That’s what she said. Well, it is

  • @jeanieq6153
    @jeanieq6153 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1924

    My grandmother was born in 1897 in New York City. She hated corsets. Women who didn’t wear them were considered loose. My grandmother was very slender and small busted. The corset would ride up and poke her under arms which made her very uncomfortable. She told me the purpose of the corset was so if a man was so bold as to put his arm around your waist he would only feel the bone or metal stays. When her father died, her mother had died when she was very young, she was in her mid-20s. She came home from the funeral and threw all of the corsets in the trash. She switched To wearing camisoles. She lived to be 100 years old.

    • @11lvr11
      @11lvr11 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      That's very interesting!

    • @nancybeveridgetaylor3256
      @nancybeveridgetaylor3256 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      @Phuk yt I am flat chested and I am now retired and very lucky. I threw out all of my bras. I never wear a bra.

    • @jeanieq6153
      @jeanieq6153 3 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      @@ramu-silly There is no wrong size. The corset lashed tightly to accent the waist. I.e. Scarlett O’Hara

    • @Ashley-vs8nu
      @Ashley-vs8nu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Umm... what?

    • @melz6625
      @melz6625 3 ปีที่แล้ว +173

      @@jeanieq6153 pf course there is wrong size. A corset is support so someone without a bust would need it less for that but it also still gave more even support for all the skirts. And the silhouette was achieved through padding not tight lacing in the middle. You would add pads to the boobs and hips which made it even more comfortable. Most women would also have larger than very flat chests from usually having quite a large amount of children. So this seems like a story of an individual who may or may not have worn the wrong corset size and or not padded correctly. Not a good representation of most women at the time.

  • @vlo123veronica
    @vlo123veronica 5 ปีที่แล้ว +424

    The image of that liver with the ridges in it is burned into my memory forever. Absolutely sickening.

    • @danie641
      @danie641 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      right, insane

    • @mfjdv2020
      @mfjdv2020 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Thanks for the warning. I am extremely squeamish about that sort of thing.

    • @fitzgeraldsinclair5354
      @fitzgeraldsinclair5354 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      When is it?

    • @rosamundadrion1553
      @rosamundadrion1553 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@fitzgeraldsinclair5354 watch and find out

    • @jessicarosenfeldt9115
      @jessicarosenfeldt9115 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I find it fascinating.

  • @A.Time.Traveling.Stegosaurus
    @A.Time.Traveling.Stegosaurus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    About 21:00 - corsetry wasn’t that extreme because they padded themselves out in the hips and shoulders instead of tight lacing. They knew the danger of tight lacing and only a small percentage of women actually did it. When worn normally, nothing anatomical changed internally. Also in most cases the corset would break before the wearer because most corset construction were not created for tight lacing. They weren’t torture they were bras! And they actually helped in places such as posture because they forced a better posture and evenly distributed weight throughout the entire mid section rather than putting all weight and pressure on the shoulders and spine such as modern bras

    • @AR-sz5lm
      @AR-sz5lm ปีที่แล้ว +2

      But she wasn't tight laced. She even said so

    • @mgibbar
      @mgibbar 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Bras ARE torture.

  • @jadema5550
    @jadema5550 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2409

    No wonder we equate the color green with "sick".

  • @karyannfontaine8757
    @karyannfontaine8757 4 ปีที่แล้ว +154

    My grandparents were born in the 1880s. I listened to all the stories about gas heating and cooking, wall paper and frightening explosions. My Nana always wore a corset to look her proper best. It is wonderful so many people survived all the hazards.

  • @summerghost6551
    @summerghost6551 4 ปีที่แล้ว +621

    Well at least now we know Victoria's secret.

  • @danibee
    @danibee 2 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Okay, I made myself watch the entire "killer corset" section before ROASTING THEM on spreading misinformation.
    They got off to an okay start by very briefly mentioning a general function of the corset for posture, bust, and weight support, and even later specifically mention tightlacing-- which is indeed the real danger -- but they failed to mention how uncommon it was for women to tightlace regularly. They didn't mention the very small percentage of corset-wearing women that actually died from tightlacing. These extreme situations were the exception, not the rule.
    They didn't stress WHY stays and corsets had been worn for centuries prior. Stays/corsets are support garments. Not only for posture, and bust support, but the primary function was to support the WEIGHT of all of those petticoats and underlayers necessary for achieving the desired silhouette. Can you imagine how uncomfortable it would've been to wear all of that weight suspended entirely on the soft flesh around your abdomen?? That would certainly result in injury without a proper support garment.
    They made no mention of the bust and hip padding regularly used under corsets in order to build out the fashionable silhouette WITHOUT waist reduction. The "tiny waist" was an ILLUSION by making the other proportions bigger. The *natural* waist looks small by contrast. All of these "extreme" images depicted were DRAWINGS. Of course they're going to look impossible and cartoonish...
    Since support garments like this seem foreign to us, we are inclined to view the opinions of the period through a modern lens. Corsets weren't this weird thing that was forced upon women for centuries to oppress them. To them, it was no different than the modern bra, a bust support garment. It's just underwear; you don't think it's weird because it's just a standard part of our wardrobe. Many of us know how uncomfortable it can be to wear a bra that doesn't fit correctly (because hello commercially mass-produced standard sizing). At least corsets would be custom fitted to you, and the lacing allows for adjustments with weight fluctuation that happens naturally.
    Ughhh 30:01 this woman is under-researched and spouting off generalized and unspecific nonsense. It does NOT take HOURS to put on a corset. A woman could dress BY HERSELF in under 10 minutes, including all of those underlayers and yes you CAN put on shoes while wearing a corset. 😤
    Finally, allow me to poke holes in their "very revealing" little study about the physiological effects of corset-wearing during physical activity.
    1) They did the corset test AFTER she had already tired herself out... of course she's more tired the 2nd time around. How long was she at rest before putting on the corset and going again?
    2) You do have to learn to breathe differently with a corset on, and it does take a couple hours to adapt, and learn to use different muscle groups. But even with limiting the waist expansion during the inhale, there shouldn't have been restriction to her ribcage... unless she WAS tightlaced, in which case AGAIN general corsetry is not evil, tightlacing is. She stated that she was not tightlaced, but she should not have been hyperventilating if she wasn't.
    3) She kept mentioning "24 inch waist," but at no point do they mention what her natural waist measurement was... what was the difference? Waist reduction of 1-2 inches can still be comfortable, as long as the bust and hips are loose on the body (left loose intentionally for padding).
    4) Since corsets are form-fitting, they are highly personal garments. As with all clothing of the period, EVERYTHING you wore was custom tailored to your body measurements. I highly doubt they had time to make the host a custom corset to her actual measurements for this show. Which explains her immediate discomfort and shortness of breath.. unless she was just dramatizing when they put it on. 🤨 "Sigh. Everyone knows corsets are just the worst thing ever."
    They have lost my respect on historical topics, as they couldn't even be bothered to portray the corset correctly. Complete loss of any credibility they had before.
    There are several other comments referencing other "cos-tubers" like Bernadette Banner, Abby Cox, Karolina Zebrowska, to name a few. Highly recommend educating yourself with REAL EVIDENCE, and not taking the hot garbage in this video as fact. 🥲

    • @gman5554
      @gman5554 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's bc the mere idea of a corset offends liberals & fat women , ya Kno , jus like here in America how they're attempting to teach our kids all this fake history , oh I mean " re-imagine" hahaha I'm pretty sure u Kno exactly what I'm saying

    • @lisamac8503
      @lisamac8503 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes I am sure you are right But then again the clothes they were wearing were absurd If they just wore regular clothes there would be no need to have to wear corsets "but the primary function was to support the WEIGHT of all of those petticoats and under layers necessary for achieving the desired silhouette." So why wear such ridiculous clothing to begin with!!

    • @MadisonRichards-yj6yi
      @MadisonRichards-yj6yi ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@lisamac8503 they weren't just going to start wearing jeans and t-shirts lol that doesn't make much sense for a few reasons, they also helped supported their bodies, people still wear girdles because they grew up with them even though people who didn't would say they're uncomfortable :)

    • @LorraineGrant
      @LorraineGrant 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They wore such elaborate clothing to show off their wealth, and highlight the fact they were rich, and did not need to work.

    • @danibee
      @danibee 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@LorraineGrant yes but "showing off wealth" is true only for high society. Working class women also wore daily corsets, petticoats, skirts, etc. They wore the same types of underwear and garments as the upper class women. The main difference is working class women would have used cheaper fabrics/materials, and less ornate embroidery and embellishments or trims, which would have been expensive. Working class women also kept up with fashionable silhouettes. They altered their existing clothing to modify the fit following the changing styles.

  • @Lebowski69
    @Lebowski69 5 ปีที่แล้ว +289

    37:20 "You could be tucking into your turtle soup and the next thing there's a huge explosion and you could be leaving the building without opening the door" DRAMATIC MUSIC

    • @scottmantooth8785
      @scottmantooth8785 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Beware of Latent Turtle Vengeance

    • @pucamisc
      @pucamisc 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I just want to learn more about the pigeon story at 37:52

    • @daddygirlchanelhines4600
      @daddygirlchanelhines4600 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Thanks guy's those time stamps actually work..

    • @forforkssake30
      @forforkssake30 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      i actually texted 2 friends this exact quote when they said it lol fabulous description! :D

    • @leegee1839
      @leegee1839 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      🤣

  • @Turiargov
    @Turiargov 5 ปีที่แล้ว +665

    I had gaslighting installed in my flat when my ex moved in with me. Wouldn't recommend.

    • @mariaduszak9064
      @mariaduszak9064 5 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      This needs more upvotes...narcissists victims, we are everywhere.

    • @-._.-KRiS-._.-
      @-._.-KRiS-._.- 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@mariaduszak9064 Amen.

    • @honeonna6902
      @honeonna6902 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      OMG!
      HILARIOUS!

    • @honeonna6902
      @honeonna6902 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      OMG!
      Hilarious

    • @Tirtougay
      @Tirtougay 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      100/10

  • @RolyWestYT
    @RolyWestYT 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8789

    Seeing things like this just confuse me on how we managed to survive this long 😂

    • @joannart7625
      @joannart7625 4 ปีที่แล้ว +245

      Imagine the deadly piercings of this era!

    • @missdemeanor7670
      @missdemeanor7670 4 ปีที่แล้ว +185

      of all places to find you why are you on the history side of youtube. love your videos man

    • @Sairus.
      @Sairus. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      I was just thinking the very same thing 🤣🤣🤣

    • @philslaya
      @philslaya 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Human invention

    • @MegaAstroFan18
      @MegaAstroFan18 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I mean... yeah. Yeah...

  • @luanncorbin8652
    @luanncorbin8652 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    This is amazing to me. I wonder how many people died from wallpaper. All these abandoned buildings and farm houses. Chateaus, castles. Explains a lot.

  • @kitsunecookie372
    @kitsunecookie372 4 ปีที่แล้ว +955

    Something they helpfully leave out is that the small waist illusion was mostly achieved by padding the hips and bust

    • @toni-mariealibah8942
      @toni-mariealibah8942 4 ปีที่แล้ว +108

      Yes! I was waiting for someone to mention a bum roll or some sort of other padding.

    • @Dice.cryptid
      @Dice.cryptid 4 ปีที่แล้ว +110

      Yea like corsets weren't the only undergarments they wore. As someone who wears a corset on occasion, they really aren't bad, I find them comfortable, they support me better than a bra

    • @madisongreen8913
      @madisongreen8913 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      And photo shop lol

    • @kitsunecookie372
      @kitsunecookie372 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@madisongreen8913 did the Victorians have Photoshop? I mean they had exaggerated illustrative adverts but not computers haha

    • @genera1013
      @genera1013 4 ปีที่แล้ว +91

      @@kitsunecookie372 They used paint. They quite literally painted over their photos to fake a tiny waist. If you google Victorian photos, you can sometimes see the editing around the waist.

  • @julesking1303
    @julesking1303 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1217

    why the hell weren’t they wearing gloves while handling the book full of poison?

    • @haphazardlark1502
      @haphazardlark1502 4 ปีที่แล้ว +188

      And when they check her airflow and heart rate with and without a corset, the exercise they go for is walking up and down a steep stairwell for several minutes. At the end of the corset section she says she felt close to fainting. That could have gone HORRIBLY

    • @reggiedavid4062
      @reggiedavid4062 4 ปีที่แล้ว +149

      As Bernadette Banner said in one of her videos they where few women that did tight-lacing as a way for fashion. It was mostly few of the high class women, but the corsets was just to straight their back and support their bust like today’s bra. The way to achieve a small waist is by padding the bust and the hips or waist.

    • @megansampson5445
      @megansampson5445 4 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      I definitely wouldn't touch it, as it can be absorbed through the skin. Maybe he knew which parts in the book did not contain it??? There are also different types. I believe "elemental" is less toxic. It can be also be disturbed/airbourne and affect the respiratory system, particularly if the arsenic becomes damp or moldy... can mix with the water droplets and mold spores. When I was on a ghost tour in Edinburgh, we stopped outside an old ally/ enclosure place that was behind a locked gate with original arsenic paint inside. We weren't allowed to go within there at the time because it was raining and the guide said it becomes dangerous in the rain. I wouldn't want to even be a little close to an arsenic book ahahah

    • @Dr.K.Wette_BE
      @Dr.K.Wette_BE 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      They never watched "The name of the Rose" ?

    • @billyandrew
      @billyandrew 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Tryna be edgy.
      Lol.

  • @sepiasmith5065
    @sepiasmith5065 5 ปีที่แล้ว +403

    Companies have always prioritized money over people's lives :/

    • @GloomGaiGar
      @GloomGaiGar 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Well yeah. It's a company not a hospital. It's a business not a charity.

    • @TS111WASD
      @TS111WASD 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      GloomGaiGar Money is worthless compared to life itself. You’d have to be painfully shallow to think otherwise

    • @megan2478
      @megan2478 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@TS111WASD
      Tell anyone who is broke "Well at least you have life!" and see how well they take it.

    • @TS111WASD
      @TS111WASD 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      megan2478 That’s only because they have limited access to food and opportunity. Which is pathetic for 1st world countries

    • @thephilosopher5799
      @thephilosopher5799 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TS111WASD okay I see you held your own. What your saying I definitely agree with. Everyone is depressed nowadays because of the struggle to do everyday things with the stuff we are provided based on how we conform to the system.

  • @TheMinxy76
    @TheMinxy76 2 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    I remember visiting a wax museum in Blackpool and there was an exhibition on the top floor to do with diseases and medical curiosities.
    You had to be of certain age and not of a nervous person to enter, but there was a wax exhibit of a victorian lady propped upright in an open coffin with the tiniest waist you can ever imagine. A plague beside it described how tight corsets could lead to early deaths of Victorian ladies. That wax model literally haunted my dreams for years

    • @vikicarts1772
      @vikicarts1772 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I remember that exhibition at Madame Tussaud’s Blackpool. Was terrifying for kids!

    • @ritz6982
      @ritz6982 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The myth of killer corsets was created by men, who thought women’s corset fashion was terribly unattractive. Women didn’t wear corsets for men, they wore them in spite of men. As always, fashion was and is polarising and men have always had strong opinions on what women want to wear.

  • @ellyannadavey9914
    @ellyannadavey9914 4 ปีที่แล้ว +587

    "Benefits of a warm cozy home ment that most were willing to risk the consequences" - Victorian for we here for a good time, not a long time y'all

    • @sueb6662
      @sueb6662 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Ellyanna Davey no it meant they didn't know that the arsenic was killing them.... once they understood it's danger they stopped buyimg it forcing manufactures to make arsenic free wallpaper tf

    • @trashmouse_cosplay
      @trashmouse_cosplay 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@sueb6662 its called a joke

    • @mattbrown5511
      @mattbrown5511 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      In public they were very tightly laced (excuse the modern pun), but in the dark corners they were very hedonistic.

    • @J11_boohoo
      @J11_boohoo 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sueb6662 it's a joke

    • @adairkibble3546
      @adairkibble3546 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think it's a bad time if you're dying a painful slow death from any number of poisons and infections. So, a short and bad time.

  • @WhatsUpWithSheila
    @WhatsUpWithSheila 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1267

    Victorian middle-class..."measuring how good your life is based on how many objects you own & your taste dictated by the media"...gee wez, just like today😀

    • @schirmcharmemelone
      @schirmcharmemelone 5 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      That is not true anymore. Today you don;t have to own that stuff, just rent it or fake it take a photo and leave. Its just what piece of value can you put together with yourself in one camera lense.

    • @Kino_Cartoon
      @Kino_Cartoon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Experience are the new indicator for how good your life is.
      Posing on vacations, party's and activities etc.

    • @WhatsUpWithSheila
      @WhatsUpWithSheila 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@Kino_Cartoon ... I have never taken seriously any Instagram post or Facebook post... If you think about it.. you actually know some of those people personally and know their life is nowhere near as beautiful and stress-free as they pretend...lol

    • @Kino_Cartoon
      @Kino_Cartoon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@WhatsUpWithSheila
      Yeah I know!
      It's just showing those events. Like the big Fyre scandal. I saw a video about that in which the narrator was saying that this were the new 'things" people are posing with. If course that isn't the full truth but he made some good points.
      I just said this in a short sentence. To understand everything about you should watch the video (if you want to). I think he can explain it better than me.
      If you want I'll look for it and post the link 🤔

    • @emifatikhatin6254
      @emifatikhatin6254 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Kino Cartoon yes please can you send the link , I want yo know

  • @daltonfaulk1495
    @daltonfaulk1495 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2002

    One day, future historians will look back on us now regarding plastic surgery and talk about the extraordinary lengths people went to fit the idea of beauty
    Comparatively maybe corsets aren't that bad lol 🤔

    • @youwhat.
      @youwhat. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +157

      I agree. And how people deluded themselves into thinking it was empowering somehow....
      Also caking on a shit ton of makeup and distorting their pictures online...

    • @gayledimitri5887
      @gayledimitri5887 4 ปีที่แล้ว +116

      Yes! They will be like why did they inject their lips to look like a fish. And what’s with the breast implants? 😂😂😂

    • @youwhat.
      @youwhat. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      @@gayledimitri5887 you can literally get infections and die from some of the materials used for breast implants

    • @gayledimitri5887
      @gayledimitri5887 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Hipster Madara oh, IK. That’s why I don’t have any of those things, lol.

    • @Siixstaa
      @Siixstaa 4 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      Watch future historians talk about how the Kardashians surgery was "deadly"😂

  • @danielle7760
    @danielle7760 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    this sometimes makes me wonder, "what if there's something similar to this in our modern world?" Say, additives in food, or maybe the products we use. What if one day in the far (or near) future, there's a video about us online, talking about it the way this video does now.

    • @beeuhun
      @beeuhun 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Lmao just imagine robots tlwkigm about us "Yoo these humans were stupid asf"

    • @milo1263
      @milo1263 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      We have phtalates used in plastic items that are ruining male fertility today.

    • @odemkowicz
      @odemkowicz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Estrogen-Progesterone Birth control is a class 1 carcinogen...and yet no one ever talks about waht that is doing to women or the water supply as it it released into our sewer systems.

    • @nothing-jl2dz
      @nothing-jl2dz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I think a big thing is fillers/botox/implant.. Think about bbl, some women die from it but many still get it and there's still research lacking on fillers etc. Breast implant illness is also a thing but there's lack of research on it.

    • @DrCarlBooze
      @DrCarlBooze 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think #1 will be allowing kids to have sex change surgery or hormones. I cannot believe that it is not only allowed by the AMA but actually encouraged.

  • @SnailQueenForever
    @SnailQueenForever 4 ปีที่แล้ว +464

    I can't imagine how families dealt with the deaths in this era.
    "Oh Mummy, I heard Grandmother died! Was it the borax in her milk or her radiator exploding?"
    "No love, it was the arsenic in those emerald green walls of hers".
    "Ah, just the way Grandfather died".

    • @magumba1000
      @magumba1000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      deaths were like sneezing...the infant mortality rate was horrendous...ffs they still sent small children to climb up the inside of chimneys to clean them

    • @ChubbyTeletubby
      @ChubbyTeletubby 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@magumba1000 lost another one. God bless 'em. Anyway - who's hungry?

    • @irisheyesofbelfast
      @irisheyesofbelfast 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@ChubbyTeletubby and I play this skit in my head just perfectly.....lol

    • @lindacondon8185
      @lindacondon8185 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @ Snail Queen.... She was heating her milk up on the stove n the stove exploded!! She never had a chance to drink her milk b4 going to bed....

    • @mysmirandam.6618
      @mysmirandam.6618 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @ ah ha haha!

  • @laflaca6666
    @laflaca6666 4 ปีที่แล้ว +451

    As Bernadette Banner said in one of her videos they where few women that did tight-lacing as a way for fashion. It was mostly few of the high class women, but the corsets was just to straight their back and support their bust like today’s bra. The way to achieve a small waist is by padding the bust and the hips or waist.

    • @nowandaround312
      @nowandaround312 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      They said all of that in the video

    • @justapercyjacksonfan5319
      @justapercyjacksonfan5319 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@nowandaround312 yup

    • @irmar
      @irmar 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      All the early 20th century pictures I have of my ancestors were with tiny waists, not warranted by the face and hands, so surely with tight-laced corsets. And we've always been low-middle class.

    • @jademariedawes2746
      @jademariedawes2746 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@irmar They had the ability to tamper with photographs back then, too.

    • @norik.5038
      @norik.5038 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @@irmar and you need to realise that back then, to have your photographs taken was a huge thing. So it could very well be that your ancestors did in fact tight lace to be as “pretty” as possible for the moment of the picture. Those pictures do not reflect their daily lives at all, they were a status symbol. One where you had to look your best.

  • @serenitymoon825
    @serenitymoon825 4 ปีที่แล้ว +329

    I recommend watching Bernadette Banner's video about corsetry for greater accuracy.

    • @Terahnee
      @Terahnee 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      I wish I could like this 1000 times.

    • @uniquenormalcy.
      @uniquenormalcy. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I would also recommend Lucy's Corsetrys video where she breaks down MRI scans to show you what really happens inside the body

    • @VickieV1333
      @VickieV1333 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      mermaidwitch94 And Prior Attire...

    • @Laura-Yu
      @Laura-Yu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I’m good.

    • @AkireraStraberri3
      @AkireraStraberri3 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yes! I love Bernadette Banner!

  • @ryannebarlow9213
    @ryannebarlow9213 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Your talking about it being shocking that lead paint wasn't banned till 1970. I live in the USA I bought a house in 2008. While living there my 4 year old tested positive for lead. Turned out that all the white crown moulding in the house had lead paint. It took me over a year to find out.

    • @lulassong6524
      @lulassong6524 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Asbestos is a killer too, in homes and shelters.

  • @shesaknitter
    @shesaknitter 3 ปีที่แล้ว +775

    No wonder infant mortality rate was so high. The real wonder is how anyone, at least anyone in England, survived to adulthood.

    • @NomadTheProtogen
      @NomadTheProtogen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      Maybe the poor couldn’t afford the new and unknowingly poisoning stuff:

    • @thefiestaguy8831
      @thefiestaguy8831 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Adulthood.... what's that? We're all children over here.

    • @wdwerker
      @wdwerker 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      They were breeding faster than the death rate !

    • @CadDriftarus
      @CadDriftarus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Also explains how susceptible to plagues they often were. Dayum, maybe they wouldn't have ad to deal with one every few years if they weren't so unbelievably careless lol

    • @jasminemohamed823
      @jasminemohamed823 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@NomadTheProtogen huh I guess that made the poor lucky in a way.....

  • @kat-reneekittel6159
    @kat-reneekittel6159 4 ปีที่แล้ว +364

    the odd part is that arsenic was a known poison in the Roman times...

    • @jayamilapersson4030
      @jayamilapersson4030 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      But that was barbaric knowledge and was probably discarded as not being scientific enough.

    • @theQueen.
      @theQueen. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      So was lead....

    • @dale116dot7
      @dale116dot7 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Asbestos, too, was known to be toxic back then.

    • @HJules-cw6fb
      @HJules-cw6fb 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@jayamilapersson4030 Those were savages. LOL Did Romans like Red and Orange?

    • @mikefay5698
      @mikefay5698 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I think for some folk it killed flies on the wallpaper. Arsenic has to unite with another metal to be poisonous. We have metals in our bodies so the poisoning would be slow. People try to kill themselves and others with Arsenic and are disapointed Lead Arsenic there's your man! Lead and open coal fires probably killed more.
      The Victorian period went on long after Victoria.Science and technology advanced in an enormous leap. Art was unbelievably ugly and staid with exceptions and colonialism unspeakable. Housing heating is still very expensive in
      Britain. I live in Auckland NZ which is a dream climate for old Scotsmen.

  • @icedragonair
    @icedragonair 4 ปีที่แล้ว +401

    They kinda mentioned this very briefly, but very few people actually tight laced their corsets. It was people being extreme kinda like those women who get plastic surgery to look like a Barbie.
    Most women who wore corsets were fairly comfortable, and laced them only to keep them on.
    Also most of the time it wasn't men forcing them to wear corsets, women wanted this. There's many funny Victorian cartoons of men making fun of women's fashion, as extreme and silly.

    • @adde9506
      @adde9506 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Beauty standards are always invented and propagated by the people their about, not the people their "for." Which is why we keep inventing stupid trends like the thigh gap and having to tell men that the biggest dick is not the best dick.

    • @ultraboombean
      @ultraboombean 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@adde9506 yep it is all competition cuz the people setting the standard are the ones who benefit . Same with corset 🤷‍♀️

    • @adde9506
      @adde9506 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@ultraboombean Actually, the corset is a rare exception. It's a functional undergarment. And it hits on a thing that men's lizard brains actually are attracted to, accidentally. Tight lacing exaggerated that, and evolved from it.
      Tight lacing is a mutilation level beauty standard and no one ever benefits from those.

    • @samewish
      @samewish 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Remember it was patriarchal men design and create corsets to women, just like binding feet in traditional Chinese, clitoris remove, binding breast, veiling face and more harmful women in past until today. Because patriarchal women look at men and bullshit marriage system to brainwashed girls at all think: women need virgin, beautiful, wife material, give birth machine, praying and blame herself when she get abusive, submit etc, since all she do is for men and ignore herself since the bullshit Bible and tradition say so, brainwashed girls to made for men as objects, not human life beings

    • @icedragonair
      @icedragonair 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      @@samewish Idk how to reply to that because it's so incoherent, but from what I could understand: no, you are wrong. That's like saying women wear bras because men force them to. Also if someone wants to say be a stay at home mom, or be a virgin untill marriage or say wear a veil for religious reasons, that does not make them brainwashed. Again that's like saying a man who wants to clean the house and be romantic and spend time with his kids has been brainwashed by feminism. The difference is in the choice. And by and large women chose to wear corsets, societal repercussions for not doing so are a different discussion. Sufficie to say they would have been just as harshly stigmatized by other women for that.

  • @kristofnemeth953
    @kristofnemeth953 3 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    Suzannah: “I feel close to fainting”
    Karolina and Bernadette: excuse me, what?

  • @originalfatlarry
    @originalfatlarry 5 ปีที่แล้ว +555

    Do not forget Victorian people got there water supply through lead pipes as some unfortunates nowadays still do in UK

    • @sahhull
      @sahhull 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I still have majority lead and some copper pipes... Its great. I can repair the plumbing... Cant repair plastic pipes.

    • @desidilek
      @desidilek 5 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      The lead/copper pipes are only harmfull if they are new if a house today still had lead pipes from the victorian era it would be 100% safe bc of the Calc buildup that actually doesent allow the lead to contaminate the water

    • @sahhull
      @sahhull 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Yup. I thought every one knew about the insulating build up so didn't bother to mention it

    • @MasterEdwardsLi
      @MasterEdwardsLi 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sad

    • @Nik.No.K
      @Nik.No.K 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Their*

  • @trinkab
    @trinkab 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1866

    "Killer Corsets"
    **Bernadette Banner has left the chat - in disgust**

    • @jessicaparrish617
      @jessicaparrish617 4 ปีที่แล้ว +181

      I really want her to react to this video but I know that she would just be so annoyed.

    • @virtualgambit577
      @virtualgambit577 4 ปีที่แล้ว +249

      Me too, corsets for common people were practical for support (as they said, they predated bras). I myself have worn corsets (especially after surgeries that weakened my back and stomach) for support, I have a horrible tendency to slouch when I spend countless hours sitting down doing my work. The corset just helps me sit straight, as it probably did for most of the working class. A very small group tightlaced, which is why you see the media demonize all corsets as this oppressive item when it was really just the best they had at the time before the brassiere was invented.

    • @PColumbus73
      @PColumbus73 4 ปีที่แล้ว +191

      Bernadette: *Sips tea whilst scowling furiously at her computer screen*

    • @lostpony4885
      @lostpony4885 4 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      They made me sit thru green arsenic before watching the corsetbashing. I cry foul

    • @ladyh2698
      @ladyh2698 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      😂

  • @pinkeysherbet7249
    @pinkeysherbet7249 5 ปีที่แล้ว +107

    These shows always remind me of how actually lucky we are to be alive. Like so many people died from all kinds of gross and dangerous stuff all through history and we came from the survivors.

    • @KVID1000
      @KVID1000 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      You idiot.

    • @aiuua8337
      @aiuua8337 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@KVID1000 You've won the award for most retarded comment in this whole comment section. Now kindly, fuck right off.

    • @TJ347
      @TJ347 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Descended from survivors, yes... And yet we're similarly dying from things in our own 21st century homes, and the danger of most of these products is already known. Ironic.

    • @Gummyoonz
      @Gummyoonz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well atleast you're looking at the bright side.

  • @PoreStarEsti
    @PoreStarEsti 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I've been binge watching Absolute History for the past couple of days but this one is my favorite. Not only is it beyond interesting, but the comic visuals of the time depicting the gas explosions are darkly hilarious. Call me childish for laughing, but the one with the flying cat literally made me lol. Seriously though, we should all be appreciative of what these people went through. They experienced the worst part of "trial and error" so we can safely enjoy/use these amenities today.❤❤❤

  • @matador521
    @matador521 5 ปีที่แล้ว +143

    I never could understand why this excellent series by Suzannah Lipscombe wasn't put on DVD.

    • @briannap4051
      @briannap4051 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      matador521 has been

    • @scottmantooth8785
      @scottmantooth8785 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      would love to see this series on the new(sh) Quest network here in the states...would be a wonderful addition to the current programming lineup

  • @Delicate_Disaster
    @Delicate_Disaster 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1231

    "There will be a huge explosion and you'll be leaving the building without opening the door!" 🤣🤣 his sense of humor is gold.

    • @cathyscarvey2461
      @cathyscarvey2461 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Now That's funny

    • @janicelmckee
      @janicelmckee 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Old news. The color was popularly known as Paris Green. Metallic oxides were a popular source of bright colors. They
      were used in textiles
      and laundering wasn't
      particularly thorough.

    • @Delicate_Disaster
      @Delicate_Disaster 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@janicelmckee what

    • @katybug6572
      @katybug6572 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Ha! I read this comment literally while he said it lol too funny tho 😂 👍

    • @MisterAndrewBuckley
      @MisterAndrewBuckley 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@janicelmckee of course it's "old news" it's HISTORY.....🙄

  • @SereneGohSH
    @SereneGohSH 5 ปีที่แล้ว +183

    this Mrs B keeps getting mentioned. she killed so many people who looked to her for advice

    • @Acidfunkish
      @Acidfunkish 5 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      At least, in her case, it was due to ignorance instead of malice.

    • @daddygirlchanelhines4600
      @daddygirlchanelhines4600 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Acidfunkish right

    • @WhitneyDahlin
      @WhitneyDahlin 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@Acidfunkish true but it doesn't matter to the people she KILLED that she didn't mean to kill them. They're dead either way.

    • @Acidfunkish
      @Acidfunkish 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@WhitneyDahlin It does matter. She helped more people than she killed, and that was her fucking intention. She was using the best science available, for her time.
      But no, let's just vilify everyone from the past for not knowing what we know now, right? Because that makes sense. You daft twat.

    • @WhitneyDahlin
      @WhitneyDahlin 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Acidfunkish it doesn't matter the people are still dead just because some more people didn't die that doesn't cancel out everyone who did. It doesn't matter if I shoot someone on purpose or if I shoot someone accidentally, they're still dead. And to them it doesn't matter because they're dead. The dead don't give a sh*t why you killed them.

  • @courtneyrudd2455
    @courtneyrudd2455 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    00:46:15 Hey, just to let you know. The drawing is actually of a 23 year old Viennese woman, before and after getting sick from cholera in 1831. The drawing is in a book called The Sick Rose by Richard Barnett, which is a really cool book filled with drawings of diseases. Ifv you like to learn about historic medicine I would defiantly recommend it. Not trying to be rude just wanted to be helpful.

  • @catherine69340
    @catherine69340 5 ปีที่แล้ว +268

    I wasn’t ready for the male model that showed up during the corset section. Where did he come from?!

    • @SilveraroShow
      @SilveraroShow 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Hadley Catherine McDonald’s

    • @gfodale
      @gfodale 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Probably a mail order catalog. You'd be surprised what you can find in those. :)

    • @AgentKateB
      @AgentKateB 5 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      @@gfodale a male order catalog... :)

    • @dyliscairofoon9678
      @dyliscairofoon9678 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Oooh , I see what you did there !

    • @dellar.6082
      @dellar.6082 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Hadley Catherine and her drawing all over him lololol

  • @WheelsRCool
    @WheelsRCool 3 ปีที่แล้ว +600

    From what I've read, it is a myth that corsets were so dangerous. As the one woman said, the tight lacing was done by a minority of women. The majority of corset wearers wore them much looser. Today women wear spanx. High heels also are still worn.

    • @NOONE-cd4gu
      @NOONE-cd4gu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      If u believe that then google what age girls started wearing corsets. You will find plenty of magazine articles of girls under 15 being forced by their moms to wear tight lacing corsets and not even take them off at sleep. The moms would beat them and put chains around their bodies so they wpupdnt take them off.

    • @WheelsRCool
      @WheelsRCool 3 ปีที่แล้ว +90

      @@NOONE-cd4gu I am sure there are women that did this and I am no expert, but from what I read on a fashion history website from Googling the subject, women did not generally wear them as tight as portrayed in Hollywood.

    • @NOONE-cd4gu
      @NOONE-cd4gu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@WheelsRCool idk if Im rigjt either but i read a lot of articles aswell where all the girls in boarding schools would be forced to wear corsets by their headmistress and a lot of jobs back then had requirement for women to have a 16-14inch waist to be hired. These women would mostly work as seamstress, in servants houses or even at some sewing and clothing factories. If they were in this kind of jobs they needed to be appealing for the public eye and foe the customers because you were promoting beauty and other fashion standarts. Women could only take it off one hour a week for a bath, when they were very ill. Every women had 3 pair of corsets all the time. One that they put during the day most of the seasons. This one was firm just like a normal corset. One other that they would put on during the sleep ( this was slightly less firm but they wpuld lace it tighter because during the night your body would naturally expand if you didnt wear one) and the third one was made out of a much lighter and breatheable material and worn for summer so the woman would sweat or feel hot.
      After a few months of wearing corsets tight everyday ( say 6-7 months) their waist would have gotten smaller by 3-4 inches they would go to the seamstress to get fitted to a smaller corsets.(because obviously you have it tailored for your body) . When wearing a corset the first month they would lace it 1 inch tighter everyday and after the first month only half an inch everyday. Most of people wouldnt go beyond 18 inch (20 centimeters) but a lot of women were obessesed to get to 14 inches. If you wanna know more cool stuff about corsets ( like how they were made or the materials, pregnant women with corsests or more general stuff lemme know)

    • @lisahomann8819
      @lisahomann8819 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      heels aren’t really that good for you either. the absolutely can deform your feet if you where them for years on end, my grandmother has slightly deformed feet from wearing heels at work every day for majority of her life

    • @WheelsRCool
      @WheelsRCool 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@lisahomann8819 Yes that was my point, they are terrible for you but women still wear them and many love them.

  • @MsHarpsychord
    @MsHarpsychord 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5102

    Your toilet leaks methane.
    Your radiator explodes
    Your led based toys
    Arsenic in the walls
    Borax in your milk and bread.
    Asbestos insulation.
    What a great era
    Edit: 5 thousand likes oh my god you people are legends ilysm ❤❤❤

    • @PallabDutt
      @PallabDutt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +286

      Don't forget plaster of paris in bread.

    • @elninonmg9397
      @elninonmg9397 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      @@PallabDutt cheers mate.

    • @bugtech645
      @bugtech645 4 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      Small Stairs

    • @dlfon99
      @dlfon99 4 ปีที่แล้ว +207

      Honestly, the corsets were the least awful part- sure if you tightlaced you were immediately impacting your health, but worn 'correctly' they functioned like bras with back support. Of course, this meant abdominal muscles went severely undeveloped, making it hard to stand upright without a corset if one had become too accustomed to them.

    • @jennajune2101
      @jennajune2101 4 ปีที่แล้ว +102

      I’m amazed anyone survived

  • @ashleydeialorita
    @ashleydeialorita 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Remember that quote from Elizabeth Swann from the Prites of the Caribbean? "Women in London must have learned not to breathe". Didn't believe it back then but now, I'm absolutely stumped

  • @jademariedawes2746
    @jademariedawes2746 4 ปีที่แล้ว +698

    30:28 Women had specific corsets for exercising in, a very small minority of women tight-laced themselves, and teenagers had more flexible corsets that slowly trained them for the more sturdy corsets that older women wore. Your organs shifted slightly, much like during pregnancy, over a long period of time while wearing a corset, but shifted back once the corset was removed. Along with this, corsets improved women's posture and there are multiple accounts of women doing hard exercise such as hiking, rock climbing, running, horseback riding and dancing in corsets. The corset she wore in this video is most likely not made to measure and is not seasoned as this takes a long time and is very expensive. Women still wear corsets today more often than you think, but you never hear that in the news.

    • @jademariedawes2746
      @jademariedawes2746 4 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      @bobbybigboyyes Take into account that these are all women that are from the 20th/21st century. They are tight-lacing simply because they see it as beautiful, not because it is the cultural norm. Corsets were the cultural norm for every woman for hundreds and hundreds of years. Tight-lacing was something that was very controversial. Also, Have you ever heard from any of these women in that video complaining about shortness of breath or fainting? They're pushing corsets to the extreme but they aren't complaining. Coincidence? I think not.

    • @pupppydog567
      @pupppydog567 4 ปีที่แล้ว +133

      Literally all the youtube fashion historians taught me that real period corsets that were made to measure were not uncomfortable. I hate that people keep perpetuating the lie about corsets and stays. Ugh.

    • @jademariedawes2746
      @jademariedawes2746 4 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      @@pupppydog567 so true, so true. Plus today there are so many structured undergarments that are basically corsets but are called by a different name and nobody's fainting, dying, having shifted organs or getting their lungs punctured in those. There have even been accounts of steel-boned corsets saving women from bullets. Also, men were no strangers to corsets. The would wear corsets to hide beer-bellies or unwanted chub or simply to achieve a desired shape.

    • @libtrelford4340
      @libtrelford4340 4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      Corsets also help with heart problems , back problems and blood circulation , migraines and headaches , posture , good at support and can even help with mental health issues ! Which is pretty amazing for one piece of fashion

    • @jademariedawes2746
      @jademariedawes2746 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@libtrelford4340 Exactly!

  • @fyeelessarndra3392
    @fyeelessarndra3392 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1850

    "the colour yellow and red is associated with barbaric countries.." Victorians throwing shade at China and India like nobody's business..LOL

    • @Luubelaar
      @Luubelaar 5 ปีที่แล้ว +185

      And "yellowish red" (aka orange) throwing shade at the Dutch there, with their royal house being the House of Orange.

    • @nataliaalfonso2662
      @nataliaalfonso2662 5 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      Spain.

    • @fyeelessarndra3392
      @fyeelessarndra3392 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@Luubelaar the Victorians didn't like the Dutch? I wasn't aware of that tbh..😂

    • @fyeelessarndra3392
      @fyeelessarndra3392 5 ปีที่แล้ว +95

      @@nataliaalfonso2662 yeah I thought they meant China and India because these two countries were pretty much colonised by England and the Victorians think that these countries are barbaric because of the cultural differences..but I guess Spain works too simply because Spain has kicked England's ass a few times and the Victorians are being sore losers about it..😂😂

    • @vulbvibe
      @vulbvibe 5 ปีที่แล้ว +98

      I’ve never seen blatant racism re-contextualized as “throwing shade” before

  • @jackfrost6902
    @jackfrost6902 5 ปีที่แล้ว +133

    There will always be dangerous killers that we don’t know about or we do know about it but greed takes over and they keep it a secret.

    • @catholiccrusader5328
      @catholiccrusader5328 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Jack how right you are, sir; take the tobacco lobby.

    • @GoodVideos4
      @GoodVideos4 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Very money orientated.

  • @naturewandererZ
    @naturewandererZ 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Please look into Bernadette Banner and Karolina Zebrowska (hope im spelling her name correctly), for more of an understanding of corsets. They both frequently wear them and are Fashion Historians who look into and understand corsets well. Tight lacing was indeed a problem that caused these issues but casual wearing of corsets did not.

  • @gal2727
    @gal2727 5 ปีที่แล้ว +283

    🧐 Mr. Green... in the drawing room... with the arsenic 🧐

    • @R.J.theGentleman
      @R.J.theGentleman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      🧐 .....with the wallpaper 🧐

    • @gusy629
      @gusy629 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Magic! LOL

    • @ilikegrapes5769
      @ilikegrapes5769 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I still think it was the butler. Sorry not sorry.

    • @victoriabes
      @victoriabes 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mrs White... 🧐 in the nursery... 🤱 with the bottle 🍼

  • @katethegreat7998
    @katethegreat7998 5 ปีที่แล้ว +417

    Anyone else feel like the host would make a killing doing sleep hypnosis videos?
    She has the most relaxing female voice I have ever heard. 😳

    • @AlyTennyson
      @AlyTennyson 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      @Austin Downing your extreme immaturity is showing, austin... and your gender...

    • @jaronimo1976
      @jaronimo1976 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      She's the cutest doctor I've seen. I can't wait for her to operate... :-)

    • @dday9257
      @dday9257 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Kate the Great She sure is beautiful she reminds me of a young Olivia Newton John

    • @schmootheonly
      @schmootheonly 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ugh it bugs me

    • @thischannelwillselfdestruc4977
      @thischannelwillselfdestruc4977 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I've literally fallen in love with her tbh

  • @katarinakhy7965
    @katarinakhy7965 4 ปีที่แล้ว +381

    One person clearly said “A MINORITY of people practiced tight lacing” but it’s clear that they wanted to show some drama in the program so it’s kind of disregarded. We have extreme fashions nowadays too, but you cannot claim that it’s a widely common practice to do rib removal surgeries etc.

    • @EliasEthernet
      @EliasEthernet 4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      Not only that but her corset most likely wasn't properly fitted, and probably wasn't broken in, or even boned with baleen. It's like a pair of shoes, its unpleasant when new, but the whale bone molds to the body over time and it becomes comfortable. They were basically a victorian bra girdle combo. People needed them for breast support.

    • @windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823
      @windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I think if you find an old catalog and there's 19 pages of corsets, someone knew they'd be worth money so that's what they sold. Then see how it was advertised.

    • @TurquoiseTalks
      @TurquoiseTalks 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      And that minority were well off ladies who had multiple maids and did not have to do any labor or errands.

    • @shaneamason6656
      @shaneamason6656 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      My Great grandma(on my Papa's side)was the Head Nurse of the Surgical Department at the world-famous TB Hospital Waverly Hills Sanitarium in Louisville,KY!!!!Back when it hit big,famous,rich people(and people from the community and surrounding areas)came to be treated for"The White Plague".Some left walking out,others in body bags.It depended on how badly you suffered from it whether you passed or not.Some of the treatments included rib removal surgeries,and electroshock therapy(some had it in the brain).The theory of the rib removal was to give the patient more room,in the chest,to try to breathe by removing a rib.Watch any number of documentaries on the place,courtesy of the Internet.It's an unusual,tragic part of our American History that most of us don't know happened(unless you had someone you knew/loved affected by the disease).My Granny(her Mama was the Nurse)told a story once about a millionaire from(either Texas or New York State,can't remember which)another state that stayed with them and his chauffeur had to come back to their house to get a suit that was almost left behind when they were catching the train back to their home.They were one of the few homes in Louisville to have,either a telephone or electricity,it and so many different people came to stay with them while they recovered from it.She even told me about having kids(that were patients there)staying for the weekend.She also told us about performing in the auditorium(dancing and singing)to keep up the spirits of the patients!!!!This all happened in the 1940's and 1950's.You can also watch a movie about it called Death Tunnel.It's scary movie about the Hospital and some things that happened there.It used to be on the Sci-fi Channel.Happy watching!!!!

    • @crystalwolcott4744
      @crystalwolcott4744 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Thank you! I hate it when videos like this try to paint corsets as torture devices. They are no more torture devices than bras are today.

  • @jashley777
    @jashley777 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "It makes me wonder what we're oblivious to today" - great final words.

  • @kiwipalace
    @kiwipalace 5 ปีที่แล้ว +133

    this documentary is extremely well done, interesting & informative! thank you

  • @LILBEF
    @LILBEF 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1284

    My favourite meme will forever be "Being an old timey doctor would rule, being drunk as hell like; "You've got ghosts in your blood, you should do cocaine about it".

    • @silent_stalker3687
      @silent_stalker3687 5 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Mister Garfield
      Ghost: “yes! YES! I’ve been in withdrawal for eons... my spirit can finally be at peace...” 420 blaze-its out of there

    • @MadamoftheCatHouse
      @MadamoftheCatHouse 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Ghosts get hooked on coke and won't leave.

    • @MadamoftheCatHouse
      @MadamoftheCatHouse 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      MG Not if they r the ghosts of users.

    • @cBearTV-
      @cBearTV- 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      So did it get rid the ghosts? 🤣

    • @rebekahlikesmusic2723
      @rebekahlikesmusic2723 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thats an all time favorite of mine!!! Itll never not be funny!!😂😂😂

  • @darkanser
    @darkanser 5 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    I think it's good for humanity today to remember the growing pains of scientific and technological development. .

  • @lauriejordan2716
    @lauriejordan2716 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I lost my family, mother, father, and brother. I wear jewelry with their ashes every day. Clearly, I know they are not physically with me. But, it does make me somehow feel close to them. I don’t think some of these things are that odd at all. It’s hard to lose someone you love. No reason to judge anybody for what they need to do to get through such a difficult journey.

  • @David-mv3zl
    @David-mv3zl 5 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    That's some killer wallpaper y'all got. 💯

  • @MaikasCooking
    @MaikasCooking 4 ปีที่แล้ว +98

    Some politician during Victorian time would eat the wallpaper to show how safe it was. Some politician, nowadays, would drink Flint Michigan water to show how safe it was.

    • @HJules-cw6fb
      @HJules-cw6fb 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      WOW that was an amazing comparison. WOW

    • @lisad1532
      @lisad1532 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ivanka trump will televise her being injected with the covid vaccine

  • @samisavage891
    @samisavage891 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1103

    That old lady's a Savage 😂😂
    Reporter: "I can see why they would wear corsets, my waistline is only 24 inches!!!"
    Old lady: *clears throat* "24 and three quarters" 😂😂😂😂

    • @Griselda_Puppy
      @Griselda_Puppy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      *Don't you just **_love_** people with dry, blunt personalities?*

    • @erikjohansson2703
      @erikjohansson2703 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@Griselda_Puppy no

    • @PortCharmers
      @PortCharmers 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@Griselda_Puppy Do you mean someone telling someone their waist has been compressed 3/4 of an inch less than they thought, or someone calling a fourty-something "old lady"?

    • @lynxsyn9003
      @lynxsyn9003 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      how is correcting someone being a savage? 🤨🤨

    • @dustbunny6568
      @dustbunny6568 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@lynxsyn9003 idk

  • @gracecasey6821
    @gracecasey6821 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I always found the Victorian Age fascinating; but scary as well.

  • @grigorirasputin9507
    @grigorirasputin9507 5 ปีที่แล้ว +220

    Look at all the clutter...
    Good lord!!!! I think my Mother may be a Victorian 0_0

    • @cats2537
      @cats2537 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same!!!

    • @MrG0re
      @MrG0re 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      B-but... YOURE from the victorian era, rasputin.

    • @theapterousbird
      @theapterousbird 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hahah I was thinking the same

  • @aurorawolfe6060
    @aurorawolfe6060 5 ปีที่แล้ว +603

    I wonder which popular products will be obsolete & considered ridiculous or dangerous 100 years from now. I bet one of those products will be high heels.

  • @layna-heyhey
    @layna-heyhey 5 ปีที่แล้ว +254

    Yes this book is poison. Let's touch it without gloves.

    • @FoxtrotMouse
      @FoxtrotMouse 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      It's okay, he washed his hands after.

    • @GloomGaiGar
      @GloomGaiGar 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Arsenic takes a long time of constant and consistent exposure to actually start having any effects.

    • @scottmantooth8785
      @scottmantooth8785 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      because it's SO pretty

    • @dellar.6082
      @dellar.6082 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      GloomGaiGar not if you ingest it

    • @bobbobson5245
      @bobbobson5245 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@dellar.6082 There is a rule of thumb with chemicals. If you dont wear gloves, you might as well eat it. But depending on the chemical, the skin can only absorb so much at once. Thumbing through the wallpaper book would be negligible

  • @oscarooni_roo
    @oscarooni_roo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Corsets can't do you any harm unless you're wearing them incorrectly (to tight, not worn as it should be, etc). Fashion historians would say the same thing.

  • @angelan393
    @angelan393 5 ปีที่แล้ว +174

    I love listening to this host- she could spend an hour reading menus and I’d still watch

    • @godfreypoon5148
      @godfreypoon5148 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I think she has a lisp.

    • @mfjdv2020
      @mfjdv2020 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Menus are always worth listening to :-)

    • @rhythmandblues_alibi
      @rhythmandblues_alibi 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I find her lisp irritating.

    • @jaymecolliermoniz
      @jaymecolliermoniz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I agree. I adore the way she talks. I find it seductive and alluring. ESP when paired with those almost bedroom eyes :)
      Reminds me of the actress Blake Lively.
      And no. She doesn’t have a lisp.

    • @lycheemyusic
      @lycheemyusic 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@jaymecolliermoniz im really sound sensitive and i agree, she doesnt have a lisp.

  • @HaveanIcedaymx
    @HaveanIcedaymx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +693

    Bernardette Banner, Karolina Zebrowska, Abby Cox, and so many other people who really take it upon themselves to investigate corsettes and other clothing, would be so mad if they found this video...

    • @MizzKittyBichon
      @MizzKittyBichon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      Don't forget Lucy from Lucy's Corsetry and Izabela from Prior Attire. Also, Izabela has made an entire video about how people in Victorian times could cope with the heat while wearing so many layers of clothes which is another thing this documentary gets wrong: th-cam.com/video/tY_IP4DrKb4/w-d-xo.html

    • @squirrellygirl1988
      @squirrellygirl1988 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      I'm mad that I found this video

    • @KelseyDrummer
      @KelseyDrummer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@amatsukiko same.

    • @squirrellygirl1988
      @squirrellygirl1988 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @bobbybigboyyes I'm afraid I don't understand you. I wear a corset daily which is why I'm so appalled by the misinformation about them in this video

    • @squirrellygirl1988
      @squirrellygirl1988 4 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      @bobbybigboyyes Tight lacing was not a thing. It was not accepted, advertised nor encouraged any more than extreme body modifications are today. The average waist measurement from the Victorian era was 31 inches; the illusion of a smaller one made possible with padding. The lie to the contrary however, that continues to proliferate no matter how many times it gets debunked aggrieves me to no end.

  • @catsuperior
    @catsuperior 5 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    I like how they brought a random-ass person in to draw on with marker at 23:45. Props, drawn-on guy.

    • @Liusila
      @Liusila 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It was probably some poor underpaid intern too.

  • @alliemotchka3516
    @alliemotchka3516 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is the kind of video that makes you relieved that you’re living today.

  • @alysonramos7981
    @alysonramos7981 5 ปีที่แล้ว +515

    So basically you where lucky to be poor in the old days.😮
    (Don't buy anything)

    • @Ami-zo7mo
      @Ami-zo7mo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +125

      Poor people worked 12+ hours a day in factories producing those toxic products.

    • @possumhead2812
      @possumhead2812 5 ปีที่แล้ว +91

      you were probably luckiest if you didn't live in a big city

    • @meglukes
      @meglukes 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Remarkably despite all of this the population continued to explode.

    • @laceneil4570
      @laceneil4570 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      @@meglukes Easy - no birth control. Sheep gut condoms and spells from the wise woman were sadly lacking in effectiveness.

    • @GloomGaiGar
      @GloomGaiGar 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Not really. You'll just live in the streets, not able to escape the city. You'll die too but not in comfort.

  • @Keira-_-
    @Keira-_- 4 ปีที่แล้ว +368

    So you’ve got a choice between milk with tb or poison walls
    Victorians: I’ll take the lot

    • @sueb6662
      @sueb6662 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Keira lol

    • @idontexist6885
      @idontexist6885 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      And here are some wall infused loaves of “bread”

  • @1stPCFerret
    @1stPCFerret 5 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    What was not mentioned in the section on corsets is that men wore them too! Especially in the American Antebellum South, young aristocratic gentlemen (the "officer class" of the Confederate Army) were often corseted. I wonder what effect that would have had on their performance in combat.

    • @DelphineTheWorstBladeEver
      @DelphineTheWorstBladeEver 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Is that why they look so in pain or uncomfortable?

    • @npcgray5480
      @npcgray5480 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      the confederates had less soldiers so they lost but their KDA was quite impressive. no more brother wars

    • @donnebes9421
      @donnebes9421 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      1stPCFerret guess it would keep them upright even after being shot. After you shoot someone twenty times you realize, you funny guy you are wearing a corset. I wasted all my ammo.🔫🔫🔫🔫

    • @mackenziewhethers1257
      @mackenziewhethers1257 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      well they lost so take a guess.

    • @alabasterscarf612
      @alabasterscarf612 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      CSI had an episode about that. Led to some really nasty stuff.

  • @AshleyFromTX
    @AshleyFromTX 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Wow these documentaries are great!

  • @meandmyunclesbrother409
    @meandmyunclesbrother409 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3262

    In 500 years, instead of this, there will be a hologram showing millennials dropping their phones on their faces while in bed.

    • @staceysmith8292
      @staceysmith8292 4 ปีที่แล้ว +127

      I don’t know why but fuck this is funny haha

    • @avantigabourel7384
      @avantigabourel7384 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Haha 😂

    • @The_Whimsical_Stenographer
      @The_Whimsical_Stenographer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      😆

    • @TimeLady8
      @TimeLady8 4 ปีที่แล้ว +209

      Narrator: Not realizing the dangers, these innocent, vulnerable young people put their plugged-in smartphones beneath their pillows, only to be burned horribly when the heat from the charging battery ignited the bedding.

    • @NutsNBerries
      @NutsNBerries 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      🤣🤣😂💀

  • @JMac-27
    @JMac-27 5 ปีที่แล้ว +252

    Sir luckily these days we have latex or nitrile gloves, you dont have to handle those pages!! Good lord

    • @heathercontois4501
      @heathercontois4501 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      What if she was allergic to both?

    • @Christine-xt8fr
      @Christine-xt8fr 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@heathercontois4501 Then she's probably one of those super annoying people who are allergic to 150 different things.

    • @justinpowell3174
      @justinpowell3174 5 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      They also have cloth gloves, for handling old papers. I'm surprised he wasn't wearing them

    • @SaraH-jn5db
      @SaraH-jn5db 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@Christine-xt8fr ya because that's something those people chose to annoy you with

    • @afranca1825
      @afranca1825 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Christine-xt8fr right! I hate those people who say they have all those allergies just for attention.

  • @lisacrystallize99
    @lisacrystallize99 4 ปีที่แล้ว +402

    Yes, the corset was everywhere. BECAUSE IT WAS ABOUT COMFORT. They were meant to support the back and chest like a bra today.
    Tightlacing on the other hand is about the very extreme figures and very little of women did this.
    Edit: I guess I am not the best person to talk about this. So please check out Bernadette Banners TH-cam video on corsetting!

    • @ErieRosewood
      @ErieRosewood 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Also check out Karolina Zebrowski. I believe she has particularly great video on the subject
      Edit: her name is actually spelled Żebrowska. I love her and Bernadette's videos.

    • @RedQuill13
      @RedQuill13 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      i love bernadette banner, and also, youre completely right, tight lacing a corset is like wearing something a celebrity wears, not everyone does and not everyone can. I look forward to the day that historians look at photoshopped images now and think women actually looked like that because of that shit. because its advertising, it makes the clothes look nice, why the fuck do people think that corsets were death traps?! honestly as someone who wears them, they feel more comfortable than a bra for me.

    • @gracie6016
      @gracie6016 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      DatLisi THANK YOU! I was going to comment on one of Banner’s videos to ask her to do a response to this “well-regarded” source

    • @cats.cant.contour8812
      @cats.cant.contour8812 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      YES! THANK YOU!!

    • @Rollimggiant
      @Rollimggiant 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not accurate. We actually learned about it in a class i took in college and it was extreme

  • @lunacook6059
    @lunacook6059 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I guess that green was truly to die for

  • @MrWombatty
    @MrWombatty 5 ปีที่แล้ว +211

    The fact that William Morris owned an extremely profitable arsenic mine was new to me!
    So in reality Morris was a mass-murderer responsible for the deaths of possibly millions, of whom would've included along with the consumers who were poisoned, all those miners, ore processors, dye-makers, wallpaper-makers, wallpaper-merchants, wallpaper-hangers, plus anyone involved with handling the arsenic laden products during their transport & storage!

    • @lazyhomebody1356
      @lazyhomebody1356 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I hate that!!!! He was an artist, a genius...and an asshole? Depressing.

    • @mphomolapo1562
      @mphomolapo1562 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@lazyhomebody1356 when are they not though?? 😅

    • @lazyhomebody1356
      @lazyhomebody1356 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@mphomolapo1562 But 'starving artists' should atleast not act like evil big businessmen. Nice geniuses...there have to be a few, right?

    • @elvingearmasterirma7241
      @elvingearmasterirma7241 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@lazyhomebody1356 If the artist and genius is a man.
      Prepare yourself for disappointment. Sometimes they surprise you, but mostly? Eeeeh. Especially if theyre male, white and rich...

    • @lazyhomebody1356
      @lazyhomebody1356 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@elvingearmasterirma7241 I wasn't being THAT optimistic! I don't want to meet one, I was just rying to think of a few from the 1800s...

  • @MafuyuOribe
    @MafuyuOribe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +187

    It's sad that schools are so bad, that I watch history videos at home, and enjoy it better

    • @tomoyochan92
      @tomoyochan92 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      yup, turns out I don't hate history

    • @mellowcullens6091
      @mellowcullens6091 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Schools can't teach you everything, you have to go out and learn it for yourself

    • @hannahherrmann4921
      @hannahherrmann4921 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@mellowcullens6091 oh they can, but most either don't have the funding or simply choose not to because it's easier to just go through a standard nonsensical curriculum.
      Edit - sorry I thought you said school couldn't teach anything lol. you'll never be able to learn it all. that's not a fault of schools, there really is just that much out there to be learned

    • @shila8379
      @shila8379 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The system is set up for you to fail. Curiosity is your best friend. Learn on your own and you will have the world wrapped around you finger

    • @Mrnoobestreturns
      @Mrnoobestreturns 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@mellowcullens6091 well I don’t think schools teach you 1 thing like all school did is make me hate English make me hate math make
      Me hate science and history made me hate
      Music the list goes on school is an abusive place even home schooling is abusive because parents or the school can shove in work forcing you to stay up all night to get it done and parents screaming on top of there lungs or force you to do nothing for 3 to 5 hours or longer schools are only there is an excuse for politics or the government to earn tons of cash Like America is the biggest example of that

  • @cheyennejames5752
    @cheyennejames5752 5 ปีที่แล้ว +394

    I couldn’t have worn a corset with an anxiety disorder imagine having a panic attack and hyperventilating while in one of those? I’d break my ribs from panic

    • @sian5483
      @sian5483 5 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      I also have anxiety disorder and I used to wear corset. I once hyperventilated and struggled to remove the corset and in a fit of hurry I grabbed a scissor and cut it all up while accidentally stabbing and leaving scar marks on myself.

    • @phatpat6667
      @phatpat6667 5 ปีที่แล้ว +110

      you would have been diagnosed with hysteria.

    • @JulieWallis1963
      @JulieWallis1963 5 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      Cheyenne Pownall I have to agree with Buddha Belly. Even your panic attacks and hyperventilating would have been enough to label you as ‘hysterical’ and you’d have probably been sent away to a mental institution. Bedlam anyone?

    • @SadisticSenpai61
      @SadisticSenpai61 5 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      Mind, only the crazy women that were all about image and completely ignored their own health and comfort wore their corsets that tight. Working women only wore them tight enough to support them as they worked (they're great support for the back). Of course, working class corsets were much simpler, if only because they had to be able to put them on by themselves.
      But yeah, during an anxiety attack you'd likely find it too tight regardless. Although, if you were used to wearing one all day every day, it probably wouldn't bother you as much as it would modern ppl. And they would definitely say you have hysteria or a "fit of the vapors" or any of the other patronizing illnesses they ascribed to women who didn't behave exactly like they wanted.

    • @cottonhairedaesthetic2005
      @cottonhairedaesthetic2005 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I’m sure you’d faint. Which was normal