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Picture for a moment a group of people high up on a narrow ledge, halfway up a cliff. Let\\u2019s call it a pedestal, the place we put virtuous, nice girls and women. Now imagine our little party teetering about on that ledge in 5 inch high heels, long towering necks, wasp like, breathless waists and tiny lotus shoes. They wouldn't get very far now would they, which is, I think, the point.
\\nThis story is about the Pitt River museum, corsets and other shrinking things.
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