From wife selling to mummy unwrapping, these Victorian era facts will make you so glad you live in the 21st century.
Victorians were fans of body modification, and many women chased after an hourglass figure with an impossibly tiny waist. The practice known as tight lacing with super-snug corsets left some women barely able to breathe. Many doctors of the era fretted that this desire for a "wasp waist" could prove fatal.
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