Old School Beauty Treatments That Should Stay Vintage

Wearing Whale Bones

Another weight-loss contraption, pretty much everyone is familiar with corsets. The tight-fitting clothing has been portrayed to death in modern media, and fittingly so, as that's sometimes what resulted from wearing a corset. The undergarments were actually made from whale bones, which is probably how they were able to make them so rigid. However, that rigidity could lead to deformations if worn long enough. This, in turn, slimmed one's figure, but it also damaged the organs.

Sometimes that damage could lead to a very early death. The old ads, such as the one pictured here, sure did know how to turn a phrase, though, using the term, "Dress reform waist." Too bad they didn't know a thing about irony, though, and the use of the term "common sense."