Victorian era women. Being thin was a beauty imperative that could not be escaped
Each historical period has its own aesthetic canons , but the thinness, almost always, it is an imperative that is difficult to escape.
It was the same for the woman of the Victorian era , who had to remain as slim as possible also to be able to afford to enter the rigid and very tight corsets that the fashion of the time provided.
In nineteenth-century England, therefore, when the great and never forgotten Queen Victoria, sat on the throne of the country the ideal woman was thin, pale, emaciated and almost bloodless.
It certainly wasn't easy to conform to standards so inflexible and so we submitted to diets that were nothing short of depressing, with a diet which included the only consumption of boiled vegetables and fish and flour with mold.
Not exactly a pleasure, but obviously useful to maintain that silhouette enviable which, it seems, the ladies were not willing to give up for any reason in the world.