The Bloop posted:

I would wear the gently caress out of that spaceman sweater vest

QUACKTASTIC posted:

I think the pants might be attached

QUACKTASTIC posted:

Twitch posted:

I hope this doesn't come off as a knock against the profession, but having known a good number of artists, this makes complete sense and is probably what I would do if I was EIC of Marvel.

QUACKTASTIC posted:

MY PALE GOTH SKIN posted:

Don't read this if you want to stay sane.


It might not be retouched. That style of corset really did just shove the top half of the spine forward and the bottom third backwards, bending the poo poo out of what was in between. Makes regular waist-reduction corsets look like Spanx. Plus girls were usually stuffed in corsets by their well-meaning mothers around age 12, they basically had to live in them, which is not the way people who try to promote safe tight lacing (waist reduction) suggest, because holy poo poo is it awful and unhealthy. And worse to do it to a body that's not done growing, obviously. Girls would loosen or cut their laces at night for relief, then have a maid/friend lace them back up to avoid punishment in the morning. Or just take punishment as the cost of being able to sleep comfortably.

Anyway, the woman in the pic is slender to begin with, she's obviously exaggerating the pose as much as possible, and the rear end ends of those corsets were designed to exaggerate the derriere on top of the actual S shape. So maybe retouched, maybe not. Definitely not outside the realm of possibility for weird poo poo done to a human body.

Corsets (and anything similar, ever seen pics of little old ladies' bound feet without shoes?) really can maim the body in crazy, hosed up ways. I tightlaced a bit (as in, not very tight) for years and it permanently changed my waist shape and body fat distribution. Or at least semi-permanently.

quote:

“The most frequent use of the knife by the professional photographer is to reduce the waist line on pictures of some of their female sitters whose embonpoint may be too apparent,” Camera Magazine noted in 1904.

Antivehicular posted:

I love the extremely stern men in mid-late century men's clothing ads. These men look like they're about to take the stage in Congress and declare war, and yet... those pants.

Khazar-khum posted:

Those bras were originally designed for Jane Russel by Howard Hughes. The girls called them bullet boobs, but the polite name was bullet bra.

QUACKTASTIC posted:

Fleta Mcgurn posted:

bitch needs a bra

sry 4 troof

QUACKTASTIC posted:

evobatman posted:

They could have photoshopped one of two things, and I guessed the wrong one!

It's like when you realize that in Jurassic Park, the T-Rex was a real world object, while the Ford Explorer was CGI.

trickybiscuits posted:

why

Guy Goodbody posted:

it's from a porn shoot

Fleta Mcgurn posted:

Oh. Um...the theme is the Kwik-E Mart?

Fleta Mcgurn posted:

Oh. Um...the theme is the Kwik-E Mart?

Guy Goodbody posted:

The theme is that woman wearing a thin dress and no underwear

Arctic Bunny posted:

It's fashion all right, I guess.
The one on the right is not so bad (except for the ill-fitting shoes and lanky hair), but the middle and left ones look like they belong into an 80's cartoon.

Fleta Mcgurn posted:

you guys i googled 'fish vaginas'

trickybiscuits posted:

Here's the basis for my saying these might be photoshopped


I do historical costuming (not as much as I used to do to a changed work schedule, but still) and I've worn corsets before. The longest I've worn one was two days, and this was an 18th-century style that left me with better posture. I'm really curious about the effects of your tight-lacing, can you share more?