Talk:Metal corset

First comment (title added 6/3/2019 to resolve auto-format issues)
This article is currently in very poor shape - I'm not sure it needs to be a separate article from corset. Specifically, I would like to see references - particularly for the assertion that they were worn as anti-assassination devices (how many medieval and Renaissance women had to worry about being assassinated?!), but also I would like to see references defending the historical existence and use of metal corsets: I had understood that, like chastity belts, the existing examples are of Victorian provenance. Katherine Shaw 13:39, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
 * The historical existence is a corset cover, for political wedding. To carry 40 pound of silver brocade and/or gold brocade, you have need of a strong foundation. Do you doubt?
 * Today metal corset (cover) is a extreme underground fashion. http://www.candsconstructions.com/images/C&S0307as.jpg
 * It is important as separate metal corset (cover) from all other articles, because it easy to get many fantasy references. And they exist as a rare fashion, when whalebone was to soft. Your wish to mix some rarely corset covers by the corset article will ruin the corset article.

http://www.staylace.com/gallery/gallery57/index.html
 * Håbet 14:23, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

I agree this article should be merged into corset --Bettinaisabel (talk) 19:52, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

I don't know how many scholars still believe that they were used specifically as corsets. There's the corset cover theory, but there's also the medical theory found here: http://books.google.com/books?id=uk6I0-MDXVQC&pg=PA5&lpg=PA5&dq=iron+corset&source=bl&ots=zYI7Rld56V&sig=QZSJy5v1E7GTaphEHG6SU3eRG3M&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ec54T4-OF4rGtgfhlKWNDw&ved=0CD8Q6AEwAjgU#v=onepage&q=iron%20corset&f=false (Sorry about the long URL. Wikipedia wouldn't let me post the shortened one for some reason.) It definitely doesn't need its own page, but I don't know if it should be merged into corset. Kate (talk) 22:14, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

Clean-up performed
Just noting that an article rescue and total rewrite has been carried out as of September 2015. The previous article was extremely unacceptable, including serious copyvio. Mabalu (talk) 13:15, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

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