70 Corsets and Lotus feet - A Story

Picture for a moment a group of people  high up on a narrow ledge, halfway up a cliff.  Let’s call it a pedestal, the place we put virtuous, nice girls and women. Now imagine our little party teetering about on that ledge in 5 inch high heels, long towering necks,  wasp like, breathless waists and tiny lotus shoes. They wouldn't get very far now would they, which is, I think, the point.

This story is about the Pitt River museum, corsets and other shrinking things.