Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCT: Aug 17-21, 2009
JackFaerie:
Why why WHYYYYYYY can't artists ever properly draw corsets??!!!!
Honestly, this isn't that bad, I'm mostly annoyed because of other webcomics where this issue came up recently. The way that corsets and bodices are constructed to create that super cleavage is NOT by being a wonderbra, but by squashing boobs up and FLAT. Medieval and Renaissance corsetry would have given women an altogether flat front, while as Victorian corsetry did provide a curved one, but one should not be able to see the naturallish undercurve of the breast in either case. Lifting and separating was not the game.
http://www.roundtwocostumes.com/galleries/SSS6.jpg
http://z.hubpages.com/u/161837_f260.jpg
http://www.shootingstarhistory.com/silkcorsetfront.jpg
Flat of course, not meaning "without cleavage."
http://www.crimsongypsy.com/bodices_corsets/bodice2.jpg
As opposed to modern "corset-style" tops like these, which don't have the same construction and thus meld to the figure (but also don't have the uplift):
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_B6J6nGs6VwA/SV93CJSfOaI/AAAAAAAAOCw/QrbwTYdeepM/s400/Laceup+corset+vs.jpg
https://www.fashionsthrutime.com/catalog/images/Bodice.JPG
http://www.allthingsrenaissance.com/bodices/bodice1.jpg
Again, this is really a pet peeve triggered by other things mostly, but still...
akronnick:
Did you consider the possibility that the costumes the gang are wearing are actually modern clothes made to look like Victorian fasion, but designed with modern ideals about beauty and built for the modern expectation of comfort using modern construction methods?
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Did you also consider the fact that
They're Frakking CARTOON CHARACTERS!!!!!
Sorry, had a little she-hulk moment there (If it's possible for a guy to have a she-hulk moment.)
JD:
Then you had a regular hulk moment.
JackFaerie:
--- Quote from: akronnick on 17 Aug 2009, 01:38 ---Did you consider the possibility that the costumes the gang are wearing are actually modern clothes made to look like Victorian fasion, but designed with modern ideals about beuty and built for the modern expectation of comfort using modern construction methods?
--- End quote ---
I did. I also didn't go off on the various other "inaccuracies" in the clothes, because I assume they are period-inspired rather than actually period. But if Marigold is commenting on her corset's cleavage-enhancement, then chances are it is an actual corset. (By the way, classical-type corsets and bodices are soooooo much more comfortable than modern underwire and push-ups.)
And of COURSE they're cartoon characters. That's why I'm commenting on how their clothing is DRAWN.
akronnick:
I wouldn't know about that, not having the boobs myself.
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