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This Is How Our Bodies Have Changed Over Time

Historical Stuff / June 23, 2022 / Atlas Obscura, Corsetry, The Met / 3 minutes of reading

No, not just yours. All of us! We’ve all read enough historicals and historical romances to know that the tight-lacing and corsets worn through a lot of history made women’s bodies look…different. For instance, Edwardian women with their jutting upper bodices (see right). The fashion plates of the day made them appear to be “s” […]

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Open Access Art and Images

The Met has opened up a digital archive of images of artwork and museum-quality pieces of history, giving them Creative Commons licenses, which means they can be copied and used freely. Just browsing through the collection is fascinating, because it’s not just pictures of pictures. The high quality images are snapshots of different places