Have you seen the new ideal of Romanian beauty? People are amazed at her 20 inch waist. Is this the new reality of the epitomy of beauty? Actually, corsettes have been around since the dawn of...oh the 18th century or earlier. There have been numerous women way past the chic Victorian era who have decided to sport a corset to help mold their waistline, like Cathy Jung's 39-15-39 physique, Guiness World Record holder. Although many women love the fashionable modern corset, it's early days were more reminiscent of the distorted beauty ideal of the Chinese bound foot, painful. Early corsets sought to suppress the most prominent of female features, the breasts, in favor of accentuating and perpetuating a prepubescent-sized waist. Why are women consistently being made to look like little girls and forced into a square peg-into-a-round-hole-ideal of beauty and praised for it? I'm pretty sure that someone convinced this model that if she wanted to be pretty, this is what she should do. What do you think? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag4hNbqy2SI
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