Instead, one's identity was considered malleable
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Although precisely what was meant from this warning is impossible to ascertain, reformist and activist Catharine Beecher was one of the few to defy propriety norms and discuss the gynecological issues resulting from lifelong corset usage, in particular uterine prolapse: [This] distortion brings upon woman peculiar distress: The pressure of the whole superincumbent mass on the pelvic or lower organs induces sufferings proportioned in acuteness to the extreme delicacy and sensitiveness of the parts thus crushed
When the world was thrown into the Second World War in 1939, the style continued to dominate womens fashion as an increasing number of women entered the civilian workforce, albeit with the length of their little black dresses shortened, in part due to widespread rationing of textiles
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