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the realm of wedding dressage, Anne Summers and fetish wear
if you extend the realm of fetish to club wear and bridal to ballgowns that does cover a large proportion of the (mostly female) population...
fwiw when I think about high heels I do definitely relate it to foot binding on some level - both have aspects of sexual objectification, being incapacitated so you can't run away, and being so wealthy you are above needing to walk/work.
hoefla-
so wealthy you are above needing to walk/work
These are the heights to which I aspire.
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Yeah, but a wedding dress is a ceremonial sort of outfit and one that I doubt many women would want to wear on a anything like a daily basis. (I've seen brides in tears, their dresses have been so painful). Same with ball-gowns, I would have thought.
I have no idea about the jump from fetish to club wear, so I'll take your word for it.
NotThamesWater
The_Kindness_of_Trees
I guess when I think of corsets I automatically think of the corsets of old, and assume others do too. (Surely they only really exist presently within the realm of wedding dressage, Anne Summers and fetish wear?)
Perhaps I should have alluded to Chinese foot binding instead....