Corsets are only painful when they're cinched too tight (like enough to move organs or make a person faint x.x). They're quite comfortable when cinched correctly. However, it also takes more time and effort to put on than, well, a flapper dress.
Don’t fat chicks wear them to consolidate and redirect their blubber out the top? 😄 I’m just kidding btw. Women are supposed to have some juice on them
You can't even tie them up tight enough to harm your organs, you'd restrict your breathing too much before that happened. Also, our organs are meant to move around lol you should see what happens to your organs during pregnancy.
I read somewhere that during the Victorian era, having a completely bald and clean-shaven pubic area was considered unattractive because it signified that the person had lice down there, thus the market for pubic wigs. If someone had plenty of hair down there, it meant they practiced good hygiene (or at least good enough to not have lice lol). I don't know if it's 100% true and frankly I'm too lazy to look it up right now, but I found that interesting
The pointy shoes crack me up everytime lol BTW war changed fashion, for instance WWI fabric was scarce so women had to make do with lighter (and more comfortable) clothing.
We see this in WW2 as well where women would paint the lines behind the legs and wear makeup all over the legs to look like they had panty-hoses on since nylon was needed for the war effort. Unintentionally, creating the beginning concept of spray on tan. 🤔
There were also periods in ancient Chinese history (such as perhaps the Tang dynasty?) when it was fashionable for women to paint red marks on their faces to imitate scars. I thought that was kind of weird and interesting.
Oof the YT historical dress ladies are gonna come for your throat for misrepresenting corsets as "painful"🥲 they spend half their time debunking corset myths 😅. Just to clarify: corsets were nipped in at the natural waist and then flared out, tight lacing was painful, and rarely done.
Idk of he brought it up (haven't watched that part yet) but they were used to hold up heavy dresses, they took the pressure off our shoulders. I still wear corsets and they're comfy af!! I'm sick of people who have never worn one properly, especially men, trying to tell me they're uncomfortable or bad for my body 🙄
Anti corset propaganda was invented to sell bras when they were introduced to the market. It’s embarrassing that a history channel fell for a marketing scam
As far as I know, Queen Elizabeth 1 rarely dressed like that. She usually dressed much more simply and practical. Those elaborated outfits were reserved for portraits and very, very specially occasions.
Merry Christmas to my fellow Weird History fans!!! And a joyous and wonderful one to ALL the creators at this wonderful channel! And to my very favorite witty narrator...hope you enjoy with you and yours!⛄☃️☃️🎄🧑🎄🎄! Much Love!
A few missed points about the Landsknecht: Imaging being so flush with cash you walked into a tailor and picked out all 5 of the most expensive cloths ever, no matter the color and said "Yep, I need all of them in a shirt", there ya go. They were also exempted from the sumptuary laws that legally defined what colors and clothes the social classes could wear, so a Mercenary could LITERALLY dress like a king if they wanted to, because the Emperor ruled their short miserable lives should have some fun in them while they were alive.
In Florence, Italy, during medieval times, it was popular fashion to have reseeding hairlines with high foreheads and to dye your hair blonde with urine. That would’ve been a good one to add!
I’ve heard these messy clothes of the landsknechts served as a disguise on the battlefields. Before spyglasses were invented, it was hard to decide where one person ended and the other began in a group so it was harder to aim at them.
@@fintan9218 thinking of anything specific? I don’t think it was that bad, something I don’t like from nowadays is when women shave the side of their head and shit and uh all the woke shit but then also that young women wear grandma clothes haha
I regret wasting my money on netflix. I just discovered this channel and am amazed at the content quality. Why is this channel so underrated? You deserve more subscribers and views.
@@DollarGeneral_Is_a_Plague I found this little plug-in that attaches from my phone to my smart TV. Order a movie, find a documentary...more times than not on YT, and I'm good. No more Redbox for me!
The flapper section is wrong, actually! Love your channel but corsets were not actually painful to wear nor did they necessarily pull in the waist! (unless they were too small or you purposely tight-laced them, which people rarely ever did) Corsets were actually just bras! They corrected your posture and gave your boobs support, literally every woman had one even if she was a working-class laborer. The style of the 1920s did come from not having to wear corsets, but that was mostly because WW1 prevented the manufacturing of corsets (steel and fabric needed to be used for the military instead) and so the fashions changed to suit not wearing one.
I think a lot of these fashion items look great! It's funny how so many things considered feminine (skirt, stocking, fancy or high heeled shoes, long hair, perfume etc) are actually extremely manly.
The car I took driving lessons in didn't have power brakes, so I really had to jam my foot on the pedal. I found that wearing heeled boots helped the situation. Now I learn that early equestrians had the same idea...
I was very surprised when I was a teen to see a photo of my very prim & proper Gran (born in 1907) in a "flapper" dress. Turned out that before she had Mum, she was quite outgoing! She looked absolutely fabulous in her dress, despite it not being an expensive item. Well, it may have been expensive to her, but it certainly wouldn't have cost as much as those of the upper classes!
The part about codpieces reminds me of a bit from the BlackAdder series. Baldrick: I have an uncle in theatre. He was in MacBeth. Played third codpiece. MacBeth wore him in fight scenes. BlackAdder: Did your uncle have a.....big part...? Baldrick: Depended on who played MacBeth.
I wore a kilt and sporran to a wedding recently. That’s just how we do it in Scotland. My fiancée is English and likes to take the piss and call the sporran a “purse” 😂. It’s like a satchel that sits on top of your balls
The 00s fashions were some of them most diabolical trends I ever had the misfortune to live through. I was born in the early 80s and it went from a period at the late 80s through the super cool styles of the 90s to something I can only describe as a fashion designers fever dream, then a pack of designers then got together to decide lunacy would be the best way to go forward. Each decade from the Edwardian era to today had something special and epic about it but then you have the 00s!! The evil cousin that none of the family talk about.
Merry Christmas, team! Even though it's a weird history in and of itself. You're all wonky and prolly all kinds of things we cannot openly talk about. But merry, mother-loving christmas to you. Already gave the dogs, cats, rabbits, and stray things outside lots of ham and stuffing (without using them as containers), so I wish the best to everyone. Now, to work on my strats and see if I can dethrone Lacks as the best Zelda player. :D
This channel is a good for relaxing and pretty fun, there is no reason you can't be accurate as well. Corsets didn't accentuate diddly. They were and still are supportive garments when functional. They helped with bust and back support while maintaining the clothing lines. What accentuated shapeliness was the bust pads and bum rolls (depending on the portion of time period being discussed). A good corset will not be tight, it will be made to the owners measurements and sometimes with built in curves. These curves could be in any area but were to emphasize and work with the fashion trends. People didn't tighten corsets overly so to get shapes like in the photo used here. tightlacing is more a modern thing. People often forget that photo editing also existed back then. You could draw on the photo plate and either highlight or shade certain areas. Photography was expensive, a little touch up for the best picture didn't hurt. With google and youtube accessible to us, there is no reason to spread misninformation. It begs the question, if that was wrong are other things in this video incorrect?
Do you think codpieces would make a comeback? Part of me says no, but the other says yes, since the competition is great, and everyman seems obsessed to having the biggest 'cod'.
Corsets were no more uncomfortable to wear than a bra. That they were painfull is a fad. The waists in the pictures look tiny because a. both the hips and the breasts were heavily padded and b. painters came with build in photoshop.
I remember when I was a teenager, I learned about the Japanese painting their teeth black so I used black teeth for a character of mine and this friend of mine would make fun of my character for it. Saying how her breath must stink so badly and crap. Fast forward a couple years and she has a character with black teeth. 😑
If you're being serious & actually want to know (ya never know with the internet!), it's because the story just randomly happens to take place around Christmas time & somebody somewhere decided that means it's an Xmas movie. Kinda like how some people say Frozen's an Xmas movie just cause it has snow 😕
Carrying items in ones codpiece puts a whole new spin on having junk in your trunk.. 🎅🏻🎄
😅
That would be junk *on* your trunk.
Damn! Your comment would only hit and "sink in" when I got to watching the part in the video!!😁
I feel caught!! Haaahaa
Or family jewels
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Corsets are only painful when they're cinched too tight (like enough to move organs or make a person faint x.x). They're quite comfortable when cinched correctly.
However, it also takes more time and effort to put on than, well, a flapper dress.
Finally someone who knows this information hahaha. Everyone thinks corsets r completely bad!!
Don’t fat chicks wear them to consolidate and redirect their blubber out the top? 😄
I’m just kidding btw. Women are supposed to have some juice on them
@@Sheridan-ef6bu That's ok. More corsets for us. :D
You can't even tie them up tight enough to harm your organs, you'd restrict your breathing too much before that happened. Also, our organs are meant to move around lol you should see what happens to your organs during pregnancy.
I love the Flapper Look. So Cool and Feminine. I actually saw Henry the VIII's armor that you showed. Yeah that codpiece was huge!!
Those big blanket kilts look wonderful. Comfy and practical. Wouldn't mind wearing that all day.
I had heard that wigs were also used to allow people to save their heads thereby controlling head lice.
I do believe that was covered on this site.😂
The head lice liked wigs as much as hair.
@R. P. that sounds like more work for fake hair versus real hair.
@R. P. have you had a wig full of lice? You're better off bald.
I read somewhere that during the Victorian era, having a completely bald and clean-shaven pubic area was considered unattractive because it signified that the person had lice down there, thus the market for pubic wigs. If someone had plenty of hair down there, it meant they practiced good hygiene (or at least good enough to not have lice lol). I don't know if it's 100% true and frankly I'm too lazy to look it up right now, but I found that interesting
The pointy shoes crack me up everytime lol BTW war changed fashion, for instance WWI fabric was scarce so women had to make do with lighter (and more comfortable) clothing.
We see this in WW2 as well where women would paint the lines behind the legs and wear makeup all over the legs to look like they had panty-hoses on since nylon was needed for the war effort. Unintentionally, creating the beginning concept of spray on tan. 🤔
Been watching ancient Chinese dramas lately, the hairstyles and eyebrows that were in fashion are so different from today. I love how things eveolve
There were also periods in ancient Chinese history (such as perhaps the Tang dynasty?) when it was fashionable for women to paint red marks on their faces to imitate scars. I thought that was kind of weird and interesting.
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Oh wow yes you def need a part two there’s soooo much more to cover as far as fashion throughout history goes…make that a part 2 and 3.
I'm glad to have the original narrator back. The voice makes the entire channel.
Truth!
I asked the same thing last video!
That's not Ed Helms, is it? Whoever it is, I love his way!
No...on second thought, he sounds a lot like...Stephen Colbert...?
@@martifinan998 A little.
Oof the YT historical dress ladies are gonna come for your throat for misrepresenting corsets as "painful"🥲 they spend half their time debunking corset myths 😅. Just to clarify: corsets were nipped in at the natural waist and then flared out, tight lacing was painful, and rarely done.
Idk of he brought it up (haven't watched that part yet) but they were used to hold up heavy dresses, they took the pressure off our shoulders. I still wear corsets and they're comfy af!! I'm sick of people who have never worn one properly, especially men, trying to tell me they're uncomfortable or bad for my body 🙄
Anti corset propaganda was invented to sell bras when they were introduced to the market. It’s embarrassing that a history channel fell for a marketing scam
I winced at that part because I knew it was going to ruffle some fashion historian feathers 😅
As far as I know, Queen Elizabeth 1 rarely dressed like that. She usually dressed much more simply and practical. Those elaborated outfits were reserved for portraits and very, very specially occasions.
Merry Christmas to my fellow Weird History fans!!! And a joyous and wonderful one to ALL the creators at this wonderful channel! And to my very favorite witty narrator...hope you enjoy with you and yours!⛄☃️☃️🎄🧑🎄🎄! Much Love!
It was interesting to learn the first high heels were used in horse riding for stability. Now it is associated with fashion :D
I have said this again and again this narrator is fantastic and by the way, merry Christmas and happy new year
Who is he?
My very favorite across all YT!
Yes the best!!
Wow. Well this was fun. My favorite look was the the Flapper look ❤ The giant Codpieces and the Pouf Sentimental were pretty funny.
So happy our normal narrator is back! Not to be mean to the new narrator because he was fine, but I visit this channel for the narrator
A few missed points about the Landsknecht: Imaging being so flush with cash you walked into a tailor and picked out all 5 of the most expensive cloths ever, no matter the color and said "Yep, I need all of them in a shirt", there ya go. They were also exempted from the sumptuary laws that legally defined what colors and clothes the social classes could wear, so a Mercenary could LITERALLY dress like a king if they wanted to, because the Emperor ruled their short miserable lives should have some fun in them while they were alive.
Our narrator is BACK 🔙❤️. Merry Christmas 🎄❤️ and happy holidays 💕
Awe c'mon
Merry Christmas 🤶
When did he leave? 😂😂😂
A great and absolutely wonderful Christmas 🎄 to you as well!!☃️😁👍
Always interesting and informative
Thank you
Peace 💕🇺🇲
guys we should petition gucci to help bring back codpieces
Yes but I want a Prada
Versace pls
11:11 that's because you are children and children like stuff
Happy Christmas
Knowing a few of the Gucci brand ambassadors, they would totally rock its (and yeah I’m thinking Achille Lauro)
@@LiliLovesStuff oy gevalt can not Jews even take a cruise? Too soon this joke is.
Kilt plaids would be an indication of which clan you belonged to such as Campbell or Scott. That way you knew who your clan was angry at.
As I understand it, that's actually a myth.
My mother made kilts for me from tsrtsn plaids. The various plaids are online so check for yourself.
The Queen's was Royal Stewsrt.
Tartans owned by families are a newer concept. Back in the day it was just whatever wool dyes you could get
@@braydicus Thank you.
Kilts are still worn today in Scotland. In formal occasions usually but not uncommon to walk in Glasgow and see a couple of men wearing a kilt.
I love the announcers comedic timing and oratory skills
In Florence, Italy, during medieval times, it was popular fashion to have reseeding hairlines with high foreheads and to dye your hair blonde with urine. That would’ve been a good one to add!
Being young in the 70s, I've done my share of weird fashion. That decade was... URGH! 😆
I’ve heard these messy clothes of the landsknechts served as a disguise on the battlefields. Before spyglasses were invented, it was hard to decide where one person ended and the other began in a group so it was harder to aim at them.
I would probably try the kilts and high heels.
A+ video, very interesting, helpful, and well-done.
Yay the narrator is back.
you just get funnier and funnier with your commentary, keep up the great work please!
If I remember correctly, the chemise dress of the 1920s had a brief revival around 1958.
Can only imagine what future generations will think of our current fashion
Im a millennial and just looking back on the fashion from early 2000s is painful
They might like, or they might not.
@@chip9649 Remember in the 2000s when there was that awful trend of sportsmen wearing comically oversized suits? NBA was notorious for it lol
@@fintan9218 it’s coming back around
@@fintan9218 thinking of anything specific? I don’t think it was that bad, something I don’t like from nowadays is when women shave the side of their head and shit and uh all the woke shit but then also that young women wear grandma clothes haha
I regret wasting my money on netflix. I just discovered this channel and am amazed at the content quality. Why is this channel so underrated? You deserve more subscribers and views.
Cable, Netflix, all that shit... Unnecessary if you use YT properly.
If 4 million plus subs is considered underrated to you 🤔, what would you consider acceptable?
@@DollarGeneral_Is_a_Plague I found this little plug-in that attaches from my phone to my smart TV. Order a movie, find a documentary...more times than not on YT, and I'm good. No more Redbox for me!
The flapper section is wrong, actually!
Love your channel but corsets were not actually painful to wear nor did they necessarily pull in the waist! (unless they were too small or you purposely tight-laced them, which people rarely ever did) Corsets were actually just bras! They corrected your posture and gave your boobs support, literally every woman had one even if she was a working-class laborer. The style of the 1920s did come from not having to wear corsets, but that was mostly because WW1 prevented the manufacturing of corsets (steel and fabric needed to be used for the military instead) and so the fashions changed to suit not wearing one.
"Nooooow... here's a trend we can get behind!"
Better you behind it, than it behind you!
Hey man. Modern kilts are damn comfy!
Great video, entertaining and informative. Cod pieces and pointy shoes 😂
I think a lot of these fashion items look great! It's funny how so many things considered feminine (skirt, stocking, fancy or high heeled shoes, long hair, perfume etc) are actually extremely manly.
I LOVE the flapper look
The car I took driving lessons in didn't have power brakes, so I really had to jam my foot on the pedal. I found that wearing heeled boots helped the situation. Now I learn that early equestrians had the same idea...
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and New Year! ❤🎄❤🎄❤🎄❤🎄❤🎄❤🎄❤🎄❤🎄❤🎄❤🎄❤🎄❤🎄
Ditto☃️🌲❤❤!!
Can you make a video on the origin of wigs? Love your videos so much thanks for posting so much content!
Yup high heels the original cow boy boots.
Yay!! You're back!! 💜💜💜
I love your sense of humor 😂😂😂
Woo hoo! Love the sprinkling in of Blackadder clips! Rowan Atkinson is more than his character, Mr. Bean.
Agreed. RA was far funnier as Black Adder. That’s bc the scripts & supporting characters (esp. Baldrich) were outstanding.
Talk about those absolutely insane fashions that were crippling.
I was very surprised when I was a teen to see a photo of my very prim & proper Gran (born in 1907) in a "flapper" dress. Turned out that before she had Mum, she was quite outgoing! She looked absolutely fabulous in her dress, despite it not being an expensive item. Well, it may have been expensive to her, but it certainly wouldn't have cost as much as those of the upper classes!
Came for the video, Got a GWAR reference... I'm a happy weird guy.... 😂🤣
The part about codpieces reminds me of a bit from the BlackAdder series.
Baldrick: I have an uncle in theatre. He was in MacBeth. Played third codpiece. MacBeth wore him in fight scenes.
BlackAdder: Did your uncle have a.....big part...?
Baldrick: Depended on who played MacBeth.
The fashion of the 1920s was ahead of the time even now where women are judged for short dresses and heavy makeup
They were also judged by their short hair too back in the 1920s.
Weird History is probably like my favorite channel.
I like Jeopardy game show.
AHH Blackadder wearing his Black Russian Codpice right before he was bestowed the archdiocese of Canterbury 😂😂😂😂
Yay! New upload 😍
Deus benedicat tibi🙏🏻
I wore a kilt and sporran to a wedding recently. That’s just how we do it in Scotland.
My fiancée is English and likes to take the piss and call the sporran a “purse” 😂. It’s like a satchel that sits on top of your balls
The 00s fashions were some of them most diabolical trends I ever had the misfortune to live through.
I was born in the early 80s and it went from a period at the late 80s through the super cool styles of the 90s to something I can only describe as a fashion designers fever dream, then a pack of designers then got together to decide lunacy would be the best way to go forward.
Each decade from the Edwardian era to today had something special and epic about it but then you have the 00s!! The evil cousin that none of the family talk about.
And now here it is, back in fashion under the term "Y2K" lol
"No powdered wigs for the poor." LMFAO
Merry Christmas, team! Even though it's a weird history in and of itself. You're all wonky and prolly all kinds of things we cannot openly talk about. But merry, mother-loving christmas to you. Already gave the dogs, cats, rabbits, and stray things outside lots of ham and stuffing (without using them as containers), so I wish the best to everyone. Now, to work on my strats and see if I can dethrone Lacks as the best Zelda player. :D
Purses, to Fanny Packs, to Back Packs. The various bags used by women and men thru history
Good to have the narrator back
Just laughed out loud during this one!
We gotta bring back the pointed shoes! HAHA😂
Oh thank God your back I love this narrator so much better
You're *
@@jenniferlonnes7420 lmao
@@ZapoleanMarketingMedia Yes, thank God for his back...🙄
Merry Christmas Everyone! 🍏🍎
Highland kilts are gorgeous to me you can't say no to a multipurpose garment😂❤
Thanks for the info
Merry Christmas!
You too
Have fun doing whatever it is you do during the holidays! Be safe, a’ight?😊
This channel is a good for relaxing and pretty fun, there is no reason you can't be accurate as well.
Corsets didn't accentuate diddly. They were and still are supportive garments when functional. They helped with bust and back support while maintaining the clothing lines. What accentuated shapeliness was the bust pads and bum rolls (depending on the portion of time period being discussed).
A good corset will not be tight, it will be made to the owners measurements and sometimes with built in curves. These curves could be in any area but were to emphasize and work with the fashion trends. People didn't tighten corsets overly so to get shapes like in the photo used here. tightlacing is more a modern thing.
People often forget that photo editing also existed back then. You could draw on the photo plate and either highlight or shade certain areas. Photography was expensive, a little touch up for the best picture didn't hurt.
With google and youtube accessible to us, there is no reason to spread misninformation. It begs the question, if that was wrong are other things in this video incorrect?
Blah blah blah
I caught all that too.
Ah thank you! Corsets being treated like a thing to set back women would be like saying sports bras are a detriment to female athletes.
Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder
😆
Do you think codpieces would make a comeback? Part of me says no, but the other says yes, since the competition is great, and everyman seems obsessed to having the biggest 'cod'.
Thanks!
Incredibly WEIRD fashion HISTORY ☺️
Costume ideas for sure
Interesting about the black teeth. Cool
Looks like he's not on vacation... Stop trying to defend a giant company.
The powdered wig look is ridiculous 😆
merry christmas everyone
You too
You still wrong about corsets. Men and women used it, and we still use it today.
Merry Christmas happy holidays
Corsets were no more uncomfortable to wear than a bra. That they were painfull is a fad. The waists in the pictures look tiny because a. both the hips and the breasts were heavily padded and b. painters came with build in photoshop.
Leonard Autie is considered the first celebrity hairstylist.
Had no idea when a friend introduced me to GWAR.... Spider? ... I think that was his name😂😂..😩
Merry Christmas 🎄 everyone have a wonderful day
I remember when I was a teenager, I learned about the Japanese painting their teeth black so I used black teeth for a character of mine and this friend of mine would make fun of my character for it. Saying how her breath must stink so badly and crap. Fast forward a couple years and she has a character with black teeth. 😑
The present generation thinks that their predecessor's fashion is outdated...until their successor tells them that their own fashion's outdated.
Scottish Kilts weren't originally colourful like now either. That was another invention of the English to identify Scottish Clans.
Merry Christmas 🎄
A very Merry Christmas to you as well!!⛄❤🌲
Merry Christmas and happy holidays everyone!
Beauty is in the eye of the BEER HOLDER
The Great Kilt was also called a "breacan."
The kilt sounds awesome and the lacquered teeth served a purpose, so why not?
Can’t say that I’ve ever noticed a codpiece in any of my museum visits 🤔
Modern day fashion is lame, we need to go back to that 1800s old Western style or the 1920s mafia look
For the high heel 👠 part, there is the extreme version, The Lotus Shoes, for ladies only.
I used to wear 5" heel kinky boots.
There is one thing I would like to know "How did the film "Die Hard" become a Christmas film?"
If you're being serious & actually want to know (ya never know with the internet!), it's because the story just randomly happens to take place around Christmas time & somebody somewhere decided that means it's an Xmas movie.
Kinda like how some people say Frozen's an Xmas movie just cause it has snow 😕
I have a question. How many films have some references to Christmas but they're not considered a Christmas movie?
It's not plaid it's Tartan
Men with tights, 👢 boot heels, makeup and wigs back then as royalty...what a drag 💁🏻♀️
Funny how many fashion trends ended by "legal" or "royal" dictate.
Okay, can't tell if you said "lumber support" instead of lumbar on purpose, but it works for a woody! haha
Please give us weird history about the Hudson Bay company