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Corsets are painful, the popular theory goes. Squeezing four or more inches from your waist? Dear god, woman, that must be torture—however will you be able to breathe? This perception has been carried into fiction: if corsetry is mentioned in a period drama, it is often in the form of a woman's complaint about the pain caused by being squeezed —usually against her will—into the garment. In more recent years, creators have taken to using the physical constriction provided by corsets as an allegory for the societal constriction women faced in the past; when a woman complains about her stays, she’s actually complaining about how she’s oppressed by society’s norms, a common complaint of the [[Spirited Young Lady]].
The trope is [[Older Than Radio]], as a lot of
See also [[Of Corsets Sexy]], for a more general overview on the garment’s use, and [[Fashion Hurts]], for other kinds of clothing-related pain.
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* In ''[[Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt]]'', the [[Big Bad]] wears a ''very'' tight corset and is, in fact, ''named'' [[Theme Naming|Corset]].
* Invoked in'' [[Ranma ½]]'' once with a ''steel'' corset Ranma is forced to wear as a girl. It's tight ''enough'' when worn as a
* Despite providing the page image, female characters in ''[[Victorian Romance Emma]]'' only wore extremely tight corsets for special occasions, in this case taking a couple inches off before a date.
* The infamous corset seen in ''[[Black Butler]]'' gives us a rare male example of this, although he was preparing to go to a ball undercover. As a girl.
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{{quote|Gov. Swan: "What do you think ?"(of the dress, corset included)
Elizabeth: "It's *GASP [[Double Entendre|difficult to say]]." }}
** The corsets she wears are some of the most comfortable and least constricting corset models ever (unlike Victorian corsets, they don't squeeze around the waist that much and are mostly meant to push up the
*** Might be somewhat justified, as acting in an action movie with a painful corset would be very difficult to do.
**** Nonetheless doable, since Captain Jack removes her corset fairly early on in the film. (No, not like that.) Later, when she takes off the red dress in which she had the action scene of her being buffeted around the ''Black Pearl'', it can be seen that she hadn't replaced it at any point.
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* A ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' 'MITDOP' strip features a demon who tormented its victims by... forcing them into corsets and high-heeled shoes. Unsurprisingly, the rare female victim laughed it off.
* While all of the genderbent characters in ''[[Exiern]]'' (and there's a bunch of them) hate being women in general they reserve their worst complaints for
* ''[[VG Cats]]'' parodied corsets in [http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=71 this] strip. [[Sarcasm Mode|Now they're beautiful]]!
* ''[[The Continentals]]'' has a dinner party scene in which the gender-bending Lady Fiona Fiziwigg and the conventionally feminine Evelynne Poole spar verbally on the subject.
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== Real Life ==
* An improperly worn corset can be not just uncomfortable, but
* Judith Flanders, in her excellent book ''[http://www.amazon.com/Victorian-House-Judith-Flanders/dp/0007131895/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1311042904&sr=8-3 The Victorian House]'' (US title ''[http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Victorian-Home-Portrait-Domestic/dp/0393327639/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1311043292&sr=1-3 Inside the Victorian Home]''), wrote that "It is difficult to say how tightly {Victorian} women really laced. Large quantities of writing, by both pro- and anti-lacing campaigners, seem to have been written by sexual fetishists, as a sort of soft-core porn.... The ''Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine'' correspondents whom we would today guess to be fetishists used words like 'suffering', 'agony', 'delicious', and 'exquisite' to describe the effects of tight lacing, while what appears to be genuine correspondence contained words like 'comfort', 'ease', and 'freedom'."
* On tennis courts before the First World War. Elizabeth Ryan, who won eventually 30 Grand Slam titles, recalls that at her first tour of England (1914), the ladies’ dressing rooms would have a fire (it was an English summer, after all), above which would be a rail on which the players’ corsets were hung to dry. “It was not a pretty sight”, she said, “as many of them were blood-stained from the wounds they had inflicted”. ''The Encyclopedia of Tennis'', ed. Max Robertson & Jack Kramer (London; George Allen & Unwin, 1974), p.
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