A Little Waist Led to Great Waste

I'm sure women have been putting their lives at risk for the sake of beauty since time immemorial.This news story from a Cincinnati newspaper in July of 1894 reported that Mrs. Frank Sheets was travelling in a horse and buggy with a lady friend when the horse broke away. Mrs Sheets was thrown from the buggy causing her corset to break. The stays were driven into her stomach causing her death. Ouch, what a price to pay for a tiny waist!