• Faresh@lemmy.ml
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        3 months ago

        I thought that corsets didn’t really constrain breathing and that idea was mostly from men deriding women’s fashion?

        • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOP
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          3 months ago

          Depends on the time period. Corset fashion had a period from the early-mid 19th century in which extremely constraining corsets were made of metal, whale bone, and like rigid materials. By the late 19th century, they were mostly fabric and as breathable as any other tight garment, but there was a period in which corsets were genuinely health hazards.

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      3 months ago

      lmao, when I was a kid, me and my friends used to bicycle joust on the road late at night with sticks.

      It’s a miracle any of us survived to adulthood.

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      3 months ago

      Have you ever tried bike polo? Add some body armor and let people whack each other with the mallets…

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            3 months ago

            Would work, though I wouldn’t say I’d be too big of a fan of the aesthetic. If on the other hand the contestants would be in chain mail or plate mail, that’d be bloody neat.