BeauBeanie

Bio

About me

I've always loved fashion, even when I was two years old I would pick out my own outfits by shaking my head; that's what my mom says anyway. only 2 years ago I started sewing my clothes, and even more recently I got into historical costuming for theater. it is my dream to become a costumer of musical theater. when I'm not striving to make my dream career achevable I am watching horror movies with my family and friends. connections are the most important thing to me, especially when connecting through conversations about art and performing arts.

My Wikipedia interests

shapewear over the ages has always fascinated me, the fact that you can change someone's appearance so drastically. corsets are often described as dangerous when in actuality they really help some people be healthier, in the case of spinal curves they use speciality plastic corsets to correct it. I want to teach people what they should and shouldn't do when wearing corsets or any shapewear.

I also really like birds though I'm not sure how helpful the information I have on them would be to such big Wikipedia pages.

Article evaluation

I find the background of fashion silhouettes fascinating and the history of constricting them even more so. I own both a corset and a girdle. I only recently got into the idea of a girdle, but I would say it is one of the stranger shapewear. It is very different in use, in the way it shapes the body, and in the fact that parts of it are elastic. I visited the girdle (undergarment) article on Wikipedia and found three aspects of it worth commenting on: the sparse use of citation, the use of two citations that have little to no use in this article, and some opinionated language.

In this article, there are only four citations. They express what a girdle is with no evidence that what they are saying is true. If they did slightly more research it is easy to find what a girdle is from a reputable site. They could at least cite a dictionary. In my search for sources, I found quite a few about what girdles look like and artifacts they could have cited to show what girdles are, but they only have four sources, only two of which are useful to the history of girdles.

Two of the mentioned sources are about protests against Miss America in which they threw girdles and other feminine things in a trash can. Now that seems okay to include since it communicates that girdles were hated by some feminists of the late 60s. My only problem is that half of the sources are for this one-off event that doesn't pertain to what a girdle is. Not to mention how they talk about girdles later in the article.

Often they say "more comfortable" or in one case they say "Women now coaxed their bodies into two new types of foundations" implying being on one side of if past shapewear is comfortable. This is an age-old discussion and they are trying to chime in on it in a forum not meant for debating.

This article has many problems. Most of them are rooted in not having proper sources. It seems to be written by some people who are not interested in girdles and more the history of the Miss America protest, based on what they decided to source and what facts they just left without a source of origin.