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[[File:vlcsnap-2010-07-22-19h41m17s9 2187.png|link=Victorian Romance Emma|frame|[[Of Corsets Sexy]]... but there's a price.]]
{{quote|'''Pirate:''' "I'm gonna teach you the meaning of pain!"
'''Elizabeth:''' "You like pain? Try wearing a corset!"
|''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'': The Curse of the Black Pearl''}}
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]].
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*** Also, the ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' series is an [[Anachronism Stew]] anyways.
* A similar situation arises in the movie of ''[[Tuck Everlasting]]'', in which Winnie is forced to wear a corset. Her mother tells her "You must suffer to be beautiful, so say the French", to which Winnie replies "Well the French are crazy!". When Winnie is staying with the Tucks, Ma helps her remove the corset, commenting on how she can't understand why women torture themselves with them.
* Esther and Rose Smith experience this in ''[[Meet Me in St. Louis]]''.
* ''[[All About Eve]]'':
{{quote|'''Margo:''' You bought the new girdles a size smaller, I can feel it.
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== Literature ==
* In E.L. Doctorow's novel ''[[Ragtime]]'', Evelyn Nesbit flees a crowd and is taken in by Emma Goldman. Once Evelyn's corset is removed (along with the rest of her garments), Emma treats the marks it left on Evelyn's flesh. Given that Emma Goldman was in [[Real Life]] an advocate of socialism and women's rights, the garment is clearly symbolic of the sufferings caused by the society of the time.
* Discussed at length in Nancy Springer's ''[[Enola Holmes]]'' series. The prospect of wearing corsets, as part of boarding school and normal society, is one of the major factors that influence Enola to run away from [[Sherlock Holmes|her brothers]]' custody.
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