Aug 20, 2015 08:50
The undergarment that shrank waistlines long before Spanx had an influence on language as much as women’s bodies: it spawned the term ‘strait-laced’, lending a Victorian respectability to its wearer, as well as ‘loose women’ - implying that those who were corset-less had morals as free as their lacing.
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