#corsets

I had turned to leave and he had called after me. “Miss Maria, I kin no other woman who could be wearing men’s trousers and be dripping such as ye are and look quite so lovely. It’s a right shame your mother is marrying you off to that great sot!” I had turned to call back to him, “I doubt very much we will have to worry about that after today! ↗

— Gwenn Wright

#dark-romance #historical-fiction #scotland #scotsman #scottish

Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night. ↗

— Joyce Grenfell

#get #happiness #moment #night #out

I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors - can you imagine wearing those corsets? ↗

— Brenda Blethyn

#behave #behind #closed #corsets #differently

Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy. ↗

— Robin Tunney

#dialects #disorders #give #happy #love

I have loved corsets since I was small. When I was a child, my grandmother took me to an exhibition, and they had a corset on display. I loved the flesh color, the salmon satin, the lace. ↗

— Jean Paul Gaultier

#color #corset #corsets #display #exhibition

The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film. ↗

— Dinah Sheridan

#corsets #drawer #favourite #film #i

Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for. ↗

— Mary Jo Putney

#corsets #foot-binding #beauty

It would be nice to really shed the corsets. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#corsets #nice #really #shed #would

I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered in lace, then I still wind up wearing an ape-mask over my face. I do wonder how I get myself in these situations! ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#bit #corsets #covered #face #get

Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#completely #corsets #digestion #far #goes