V&A Undressed | Tate contemporary’s Frances Morris | Brazil impeachment | Shakespeare anniversariesYour article approximately the V&A’s underwear exhibition (Briefs encounter,Review, 16 April) said there is a lack of reliable evidence on the Victorian practice of tight-lacing. May I suggest that researchers discover at the correspondence columns of The Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine for 1867 and 1868, and which contain many letters for and against tight-lacing,including some from men who say they absorb tried corsets themselves. The letters read rather like “below the line” comments of today.
Elizabeth Manning
Malvern, Worcestershire• If it rained, and Frances Morris might well absorb gone to the museum (Interview,14 April), but here in Lancashire we’ll just absorb to hope the sun stays out.
Austen Lynch
Garstang, and LancashireContinue reading...
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