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Date Posted: 10:28:02 06/07/02 Fri
Author: Jennifer
Subject: Re: Corsets for EIGHT year-olds!!??
In reply to: Laura 's message, "Corsets for EIGHT year-olds!!??" on 04:58:39 06/07/02 Fri

Ack!!! I bet you are right - they were meant to get the girls use to it. That is just terrible. As for pregnant women - one would HOPE they took the darn things off all together, BUT, isn't it possible their figures were already distorted by that time and they would have loosened them??? Of course, most women were quite young when they had their children so maybe they could have taken them off. Boy - I am just rambling here, huh??? LOL!!!

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[> Re: Corsets for EIGHT year-olds!!?? -- Ann, 11:33:58 06/07/02 Fri

They probably didn't tighten them as much as when they got older and had something that needed to be held in and/or pushed up. As for pregnant women, good question. I'd guess they either didn't wear them, they wore them but didn't pull them too tight, or there was some special kind for pregnant women. Ma was not so young when she had Carrie and Grace (at least by old west standards) but of course Laura didn't even tell us about Ma's pregnancies really.

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