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<27> The abandonment of corsets was connected to moral laxity according to some Victorians. Corsets, tightlacing, dresses high dresses stiff collars and other "trappings" of lady-like dress also signified discipline and self-denial to some Victorians. It upheld their belief in putting up a courageous appearance while enduring pain; it appealed to the Victorian fastidious neatness and preoccupation for the meticulous. The high stiff collars were symbols of status especially when they were immaculately starched, smoothed and spotlessly dresses white. The collars were usually 8 cm (3 1/4") in height and were usually for day wear, but it left a "high water mark" when the ladies changed into their low neckline evening gowns. Such was the concern for a perfect stiff collar that an Englishwoman in India, worried about going around with a limp collar, fashioned one with metal rings cut out from food cans, thus holding it upright.
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