After years of research, neither Lynn Kutsche nor I found any nineteenth-century medical article about this procedure. “There is no evidence at all that this practice ever existed in reality. In it, she firmly dismisses the removable ribs myth. Well, Cher didn’t do it, and neither did women in early America.Ĭhief Curator and Acting Director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology Valerie Steele is the author of many books on fashion, including The Corset: A Cultural History, published in 2001 by Yale University Press. Marvel at the tiny waist of a 19th-century corset and your guide may tell you ‘some women had their lowest ribs removed surgically to achieve the fashionably thin waist.’ It may almost sound believable to you because you “heard Cher did it!” Their exhibit guide said, “Some early American myths prove to be so lasting that they even repeat themselves in the context of contemporary society. I first came across it in 2006 at a DAR exhibit titled “Myth or Truth” that tried to debunk many often heard history myths.
The idea that women had two or more ribs surgically removed to make their midsections more compressible has been a corset myth for many years.
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