When photos of celebrities wearing body-shaping corsets to slim down their waists first began to crop up last year, it seemed like the kind of trend that would fizzle out quickly. Surely no rational person would pick back up where Victorian England left off, not with all the core-toning options available in the modern world (hello, ab workouts!).
But the waist-training obsession has not died down. If anything, it’s picked up steam in recent months, with its popularity extending beyond a few Instagram snaps from the girls of Keeping Up With the Kardashians and Jersey Shore. Even Jessica Alba has come out as a fan, telling Net-A-Porter that post-pregnancy, she “wore a double corset day and night for three months. It was sweaty, but worth it.” (The interview has since been removed from Net-A-Porter, but information about it is still available on Shape.)
