Is the new trend "waist training" a dangerous idea?
Wearing a girdle to cinch your waist to a smaller measurement over a period of time is the newest fashion trend. Is this a safe fashion statement or is it a dangerous health concern?
I'm not sure if it's really a "new trend" but rather a returning trend.
Girdles were considered essential garments by many women from about 1920 to the late 1960s. They were also crucial to the couturier Christian Dior's 1947 New Look, which featured a voluminous skirt and a narrow, nipped-in waistline, also known as a wasp waist.
The corset another trimming product first became popular in sixteenth-century Europe reaching the zenith of its popularity in the Victorian era. The earliest image of a possible corset was made ca. 2000 BC. The image is of a Cretan woman.
Both products were used to enhanced the hour glass figure so many people admired. "Everything old becomes new again."
I believe "waist training" is a fad that will fade away. For the most part women are likely to attempt this for an upcoming specific event such as a wedding and not as a (lifetime) pursuit.
However like many fads of the past there will be people that go to the extreme and endanger themselves. It won't rival anorexia.
I doubt we'll see millions of women in the ER over this.
Ill be completely honest, it looks kind of nice but I'm a guy. I am also pretty health conscience and I know that doing anything unnatural to your body cannot be healthy in the long run. Maybe they can do it just a little bit. Just look out how it displaces all the organs in the body.
http://mimic-of-modes.blogspot.pt/2014/ … y-and.html
It may or may not be dangerous.
I don't find it to be very "dangerous" but rather kind of dumb.
Maybe its just me but why are we so obsessed with distorting our bodies and making ourselves look different?
If it makes someone happy then that's fine with me and i have no judgment but it is something i will never fully understand.
It does displace your internal organs.. when you have something that tight on your stomach where do you think your insides are supposed to go?
I personally don't find it healthy but that's my opinion.
That's a good point about wanting to distort our bodies. Its a lot like those who need cosmetic surgery to alter their looks?
Very much so. I think we should be happy with what we were born with. Unless it's a case where someone is born with dyformaties such as a cleft lip and they want surgery to fix it. That I completely understand.. but someone who wants fuller lips or a
Well, it probably is not very healthy. However, it is not all that new. Remember the Victorian times? Women wore very similar devices, in fact they were much worse. Some were made of steel and some of bone. Ah, the corset and the torture that it brings.
by Alzora 11 years ago
Is Natural hair a fashion trend or will natural hair change society considers as the norm? Why?
by nikki1 11 years ago
Whatz r ur opinions? Personally like blending. Matching one color..
by LadyTwizzelton 8 years ago
So if older men can date and marry younger girls why is it that it is now okay for older women and younger guys to date/marry?Is it just a quick flame? Or a interesting conquest? What is in it for the younger guy especially if this is his first marriage and he can't have kids with this "older...
by eclecticme 12 years ago
What fashion trend do you wish would go away?
by cindybarrymore 11 years ago
What do you find to be the most ridiculous fashion or beauty trend past or present?Please state why and whether you partook upon the trend. If so, what age were you?
by Stacie L 8 years ago
Is the new trend for women to grow their armpit hair, attractive or not?Armpit hair is expected for men but not women. There is a growing legion of mostly younger women letting their armpit hair blow in the wind. Is this a fad or are they making a statement?
Copyright © 2024 The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers on this website. HubPages® is a registered trademark of The Arena Platform, Inc. Other product and company names shown may be trademarks of their respective owners. The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers to this website may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website.
Copyright © 2024 Maven Media Brands, LLC and respective owners.
As a user in the EEA, your approval is needed on a few things. To provide a better website experience, hubpages.com uses cookies (and other similar technologies) and may collect, process, and share personal data. Please choose which areas of our service you consent to our doing so.
For more information on managing or withdrawing consents and how we handle data, visit our Privacy Policy at: https://corp.maven.io/privacy-policy
Show DetailsNecessary | |
---|---|
HubPages Device ID | This is used to identify particular browsers or devices when the access the service, and is used for security reasons. |
Login | This is necessary to sign in to the HubPages Service. |
Google Recaptcha | This is used to prevent bots and spam. (Privacy Policy) |
Akismet | This is used to detect comment spam. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Google Analytics | This is used to provide data on traffic to our website, all personally identifyable data is anonymized. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Traffic Pixel | This is used to collect data on traffic to articles and other pages on our site. Unless you are signed in to a HubPages account, all personally identifiable information is anonymized. |
Amazon Web Services | This is a cloud services platform that we used to host our service. (Privacy Policy) |
Cloudflare | This is a cloud CDN service that we use to efficiently deliver files required for our service to operate such as javascript, cascading style sheets, images, and videos. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Hosted Libraries | Javascript software libraries such as jQuery are loaded at endpoints on the googleapis.com or gstatic.com domains, for performance and efficiency reasons. (Privacy Policy) |
Features | |
---|---|
Google Custom Search | This is feature allows you to search the site. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Maps | Some articles have Google Maps embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Charts | This is used to display charts and graphs on articles and the author center. (Privacy Policy) |
Google AdSense Host API | This service allows you to sign up for or associate a Google AdSense account with HubPages, so that you can earn money from ads on your articles. No data is shared unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Google YouTube | Some articles have YouTube videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Vimeo | Some articles have Vimeo videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Paypal | This is used for a registered author who enrolls in the HubPages Earnings program and requests to be paid via PayPal. No data is shared with Paypal unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Login | You can use this to streamline signing up for, or signing in to your Hubpages account. No data is shared with Facebook unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Maven | This supports the Maven widget and search functionality. (Privacy Policy) |
Marketing | |
---|---|
Google AdSense | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Google DoubleClick | Google provides ad serving technology and runs an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Index Exchange | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Sovrn | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Ads | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Unified Ad Marketplace | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
AppNexus | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Openx | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Rubicon Project | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
TripleLift | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Say Media | We partner with Say Media to deliver ad campaigns on our sites. (Privacy Policy) |
Remarketing Pixels | We may use remarketing pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to advertise the HubPages Service to people that have visited our sites. |
Conversion Tracking Pixels | We may use conversion tracking pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to identify when an advertisement has successfully resulted in the desired action, such as signing up for the HubPages Service or publishing an article on the HubPages Service. |
Statistics | |
---|---|
Author Google Analytics | This is used to provide traffic data and reports to the authors of articles on the HubPages Service. (Privacy Policy) |
Comscore | ComScore is a media measurement and analytics company providing marketing data and analytics to enterprises, media and advertising agencies, and publishers. Non-consent will result in ComScore only processing obfuscated personal data. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Tracking Pixel | Some articles display amazon products as part of the Amazon Affiliate program, this pixel provides traffic statistics for those products (Privacy Policy) |
Clicksco | This is a data management platform studying reader behavior (Privacy Policy) |