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War stole everything from Morven Williams–her husband, her friends, her livelihood, and her home. As Paris erupts in Armistice celebrations, she stands on the precipice of her past and her future, and the arrival of a handsome, charming Harlem Hellfighter stirs her spirit. But they share an unexpected link to her past, and one that may tear their burgeoning romance apart forever.
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Fall of Poppies: An anthology featuring novellas by nine authors and centers on WWI’s Armistice Day as soldiers come home at last, and survivors pick up the pieces in search of hope, remembrance, and love.
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heidenkind
March 11, 2010 at 4:01 PM (10 years ago)As my grandma says, you have to suffer for beauty.
Colin
March 12, 2010 at 8:50 AM (10 years ago)Be careful – you don’t want to do yourself an injury just to look good.
Iris
March 12, 2010 at 9:53 AM (10 years ago)I knew what it looked like, but it’s still shocking to see.
Imageword
March 12, 2010 at 12:36 PM (10 years ago)I think your grandma is wrong.
Heather
March 12, 2010 at 3:25 PM (10 years ago)Grandmas are always right! What we lack in altered skeletons we make up for in bunions
Laura
March 13, 2010 at 7:00 AM (10 years ago)Very interesting pictures! I do like the scornful glances that these ladies are giving one another… 🙂
Lady Estelle T. Barada
March 13, 2010 at 3:01 PM (10 years ago)I have been wearing a corset for 4 years now. I love the look and the feel of tight lacing. But I am not going to the extreme as going for a 19in waistline. Some women went for that extreme, but not all. They started at an early age wearing a corset and forming the body gradually without pain. Our bodies go thought all kinds of changing, stretching, rearranging thought out our life time, especially during child birth.
It is not deforming the body. I feel if it crafting the body to your needs.
Lillian
May 3, 2010 at 6:02 AM (10 years ago)The sensation of being tightly laced in well-fitting corsets is frankly superb and delightful. The most important thing is to impose the change in shape gradually.
The beauty of a slender waist is undeniable. All things in moderation.
Evangeline Holland
May 4, 2010 at 9:54 PM (10 years ago)Thanks for stopping by Lillian! In the past, I’ve asked a few costumers about wearing corsets, and many of them have stated that if the corset feels uncomfortable, you’re wearing it incorrectly.
Lillian
May 7, 2010 at 4:46 AM (10 years ago)I love the Edwardian era fashions so much. It was a time of the supremacy of feminine elegance. I can understand why Beauty became a religion for many women.
Gibson Girl
April 6, 2012 at 1:12 AM (8 years ago)That illustration is actually from the 18th century, around 1790 I think (you can see it’s not an Edwardian type corset.) I always have doubted its veracity — unless someone tightlaced themselves 24 hours a day from a very young age so that their body grew permanently deformed such that it would hold the shape of a corset even without one on, there’s no way they could have really known what was going on internally. There were no x-rays in the 18th century and even with very severe and constant tightlacing, your stomach falls back to normal within an hour or so of removing the corset, so it couldn’t be from an autopsy.