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Why did women in medieval Europe regard cruel corsets as a beauty?

When we watch TV, we always see some aristocratic women in ancient Europe. Their skirts are as big as flower plates, and their waists are so thin that they can be grasped with one hand.

This is actually because women of high status in Europe are required to corset their waists. They usually use templates or metal sheets to fix their waists, and then tie them tightly with tight bags. In order to highlight the curves of their waists and hips, they often tighten their waists. Difficulty breathing.

This also makes their lungs unhealthy and they are prone to respiratory diseases. Many women are strangled to death because the stranglehold is too tight.

The positioning of beauties will change in each country and in each era, but a thin waist is universal. People everywhere and in any period consider those with a thin waist to be beautiful. A French queen once had a metal corset made to squeeze out her mistress, which reduced her waist to 40 centimeters. She successfully gained favor and gave birth to her first prince.

In addition to external tools to tighten the waist, in order to maintain their figure, ancient European women often used tapeworms to let the parasites consume the food in the body, so that they would not be afraid of eating too much.

European girls in the old days regarded thin waists as their beauty. This is a very interesting aesthetic concept, but of course it is also a silent devastation to women. By the 1910s, the trend of corseting had faded, and women's waistlines finally returned to a more physiologically healthy size.

Of course, modern medicine can accurately identify women’s fertility and health problems, but in ancient times, medicine was not developed, but British, American and Asian writers could intuitively understand the relationship between beauty and health. biological connections. It can be said that a thin waist is the standard of beauty, which is almost determined by human instinct.

Current research also proves that beauties with slim waists are indeed the most fertile. Convincing research results show that a woman's health and fertility are directly related to her waist-to-hip ratio. A study of 500 women who went to a Dutch hospital for artificial insemination showed that. A woman with a waist-to-hip ratio of less than 0.8 (i.e., a small, hourglass-shaped waist) has almost twice the chance of becoming pregnant than a woman with a waist-to-hip ratio greater than 0.8 (i.e., a thick, tubular waist).

Do you still remember Vivien Leigh who fascinated all men in "Gone with the Wind"? She is so charming only because of the sexy S-shaped curve created by the shapewear for her. The maid tied the straps behind the shapewear tighter and tighter at home, and she became the heartthrob with big breasts, pert butt and slender waist in front of the gentlemen. The S-shaped curve that is so popular today still makes men and women crazy and obsessed with it.

European girls in the old days regarded thin waists as their beauty. This is a very interesting aesthetic concept, but of course it is also a silent devastation to women. Just like the binding of women's feet in ancient China, the development of women's beauty must always be deeply imprinted with male aesthetics.