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    Have you seen Khloe Kardashian new banging body? A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! that is the truth. She looks better than ever. Along with 5 days a week training routine, she credits her tiny waist to waist training. Her sisters Kim, Kourtney and Kylie have all been seen spreading the Waist trainer gospel. Actress Jessica Alba, Brooke Burke-Charvet, Snooki, Amber rose,Kim Zolciak have all given props to the waist trainer for giving them back their tiny waist post baby. The Good. Waist training is a worthy consideration if you are looking for a fast and easy fix, like for instance fitting into your one size smaller wedding gown (because that's what we girls do, we buy a killer wedding dress that doesn't fit and employ all number of tricks and to ensure it fits). Waist trainers cinch the waist,contours the body and gives one that envious hourglass figure that every woman wishes for. As long as you have your trainer on, your body looks great and can be a good way to build up body confidence especially for a few hours. The Bad. In a spirited effort to show the dangers of waist training, Dr Oz did an MRI scan on a lady before and after she wore the corset. He then went into the pains of explaining the two X-rays. On the first X-ray, he noted everything was OK and normal. On the second X-ray the lady has lost two instantly lost two inches on her waist, 'Winning!' Right? Wrong, He explained that even if she had lost the two inches on her mid section, the change came with a cost, the…

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    some were concerned with the health consequences while others focused on the symbolic nuances of fashionable dress inextricably linked to political and economic oppression (Cunningham). There was a rising interest in health, wellness, and exercise which gave rise to a critique of the corset and its detrimental effects on the body, but this was often met with resistance by not just fashion houses, but women themselves who wanted to appear fashionable and modern (Cunningham). Several people…

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    The off-shoulder attire may associate with the symbolic meaning of her rejection to the presupposed social constrains for women in the Victorian Age. She sits in a relaxed pose while reflecting herself in the mirror. Lilith makes no eye contacts with the spectacular but her gesture shows self-sufficiency of her body. In this regards, Marllier states that “Lilith is beautiful but gives no sympathy or tenderness for others, so she is lovely but loveless.” Besides her revealing clothing, she looks…

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