While indexing Vermont vital records, I came across a death of a 17 year old girl, and her  cause of death was listed as "tight lacing".  I had never heard of this before. Upon searching for this term on the Internet, I found that this was caused by women heavy corrsetting in order to appear to have a very tiny waistline, an historical fashion trend. How awful to die this way, just for fashion and trying to be more attractive. I relate this, I guess, to not be unlike today's eating disorders, to some degree. http://www.morbidoutlook.com/fashion/historical/1999_00_tightlace.html

my great grandmother was from Vermont and I have to wonder if my grandmother learned lacing from her i recall as a small girl my grandmother insisting i lace her up when she went out. boy it was tough to get it tight enough to please her. On Mar 7, 2011, at 2:41 PM, MK wrote: > While indexing Vermont vital records, I came across a death of a 17 > year old > girl, and her cause of death was listed as "tight lacing". I had > never heard > of this before. > > Upon searching for this term on the Internet, I found that this was > caused by > women heavy corrsetting in order to appear to have a very tiny > waistline, an > historical fashion trend. > > How awful to die this way, just for fashion and trying to be more > attractive. > > I relate this, I guess, to not be unlike today's eating disorders, > to some > degree. > > http://www.morbidoutlook.com/fashion/historical/1999_00_tightlace.html > > > > *************************************** > List Guidelines: http://home.sprynet.com/~darrellm/list_rules.htm > Visit the Gateway to Vermont Web Site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vermont/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message