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Ethel Granger, woman with world's smallest waist, inspires Vogue Italia cover
Does this lady make you want to buy clothes?
Ethel Granger had the smallest waist of any woman ever, but it was not necessarily by choice. Her husband, astronomer William Arnold Granger, was tired of his wife's shapeless 1920s dresses and requested that wear corsets and more figure-flattering garments. According to Vogue Italia, he thought, "if she can outshine other members of her sex in some way, this is a victory worth any amount of suffering." Granger eventually convinced his wife to wear corsets every day, and even while sleeping. Slowly her waist transformed from 24-inches to the insanely tiny size of 13 inches—the smallest waist ever recorded by The Guinness Book of Records.
Vogue Italia writes, "It would be inaccurate to see Ethel and William Granger's story simply as the sadistic wishes of a demanding sexually perverse husband who wished to cripple his wife" and that they were expressing themselves and embracing a particular subculture in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. Really? We're not so sure. We find their tale pretty depressing and off-putting. Nevertheless, Vogue Italia has chosen to highlight the couple and pay tribute with model Stella Tennant emulating Granger's teeny waist and facial piercings (William Granger had a thing for those too).
While we appreciate learning about Ethel Granger, we don't think a fashion magazine should be glorifying her. Is a woman with a 13-inch waist on the cover of a leading magazine supposed to be aspirational? Many blame the fashion world for warped body perceptions, eating disorders, and constantly presenting inaccurate representations of women. Then again, with Vogue Italia making light of "slave earrings," and the BP oil spill, and French Vogue using blackface, perhaps a lady in a corset isn't the worst of sins.
Vogue Italia writes, "It would be inaccurate to see Ethel and William Granger's story simply as the sadistic wishes of a demanding sexually perverse husband who wished to cripple his wife" and that they were expressing themselves and embracing a particular subculture in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. Really? We're not so sure. We find their tale pretty depressing and off-putting. Nevertheless, Vogue Italia has chosen to highlight the couple and pay tribute with model Stella Tennant emulating Granger's teeny waist and facial piercings (William Granger had a thing for those too).
While we appreciate learning about Ethel Granger, we don't think a fashion magazine should be glorifying her. Is a woman with a 13-inch waist on the cover of a leading magazine supposed to be aspirational? Many blame the fashion world for warped body perceptions, eating disorders, and constantly presenting inaccurate representations of women. Then again, with Vogue Italia making light of "slave earrings," and the BP oil spill, and French Vogue using blackface, perhaps a lady in a corset isn't the worst of sins.
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