![]() ![]() Actors and actresses have surely endured much crazier things than soup for the sake of film. The difference here is that not only were those women accustomed to daily corseting, but they only had to do it for one night, not however many days it takes to get the requisite takes for a huge motion picture. Historically, women would (of course) wear tighter corsets for special occasions like a ball, just as modern women might wear their highest heels for a special event. James was on a film set, her corset had to be consistently laced to the same level in order to maintain the fit of the dress, and she didn't have as much control over when she put her corset on and took it off. The vast majority of women (and men) wearing corsets today are doing it for their own pleasure and can elect to loosen their laces somewhat during or after eating in order to accommodate the digestive process if necessary. Everyone reacts differently to eating in a corset, but eating smaller/more frequent meals (another action which is generally thought of as good health practice) and different kinds of food is totally normal. Exclusively for the time when she was corseted, she found soup easier to digest, and her director made sure there was always some at the ready for her. It's not as if Lily James went on a juice fast (an action our culture would normally find praise-worthy) to fit into the corset and never ate solid food. She began her education at Arts Educational School in Tring and subsequently went on to study acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, graduating in 2010. Her grandmother, Helen Horton, was an American actress. Lily James in her corseted Cinderella ballgown.Īs for her so-called "liquid diet," I find the way it's being discussed to be a bit misleading. Lily James was born Lily Chloe Ninette Thomson in Esher, Surrey, to Ninette (Mantle), an actress, and Jamie Thomson, an actor and musician. Historically, a woman's bodice or corset helped distribute the weight of heavy skirts. The size of the skirt and the structure of the corset also have a symbiotic relationship. Some corsets are also cut so that some of the circumference of the torso is merely redistributed front and back, rather than reduced, which makes front and back views look much more extreme. ![]() ![]() Check out this post on Dispelling the Myth of the Itsy Bitsy Teeny Tiny Waist and scroll down to see another blue dress with a similar silhouette from the Met Museum. Highest Rated: 95 Little Woods (2018) Lowest Rated: 26 Wrath of the Titans (2012) Birthday: Apr 5, 1989. Notice how her waist is about the same width from this perspective as from the front - it's been sculpted to a circular, rather than oval, shape to further the illusion of tinyness when viewed from the front.Īs others, like Catherine Clavering of Kiss Me Deadly, have pointed out, part of the apparent smallness of the waist is an optical illusion created by the fullness of the skirts and neckline/shoulder poofs. A side view of Lily James in her Cinderella ballgown. Lily James is an English actress, voiceover artist, and theatre artist who is best known for her roles like Lady Rose Aldridge née MacClare in Downton Abbey, Cinderella in Cinderella, Young Donna Sheridan in Mamma Mia Here We Go Again, Poppy in Secret Diary of a. ![]()
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