[ SECRET POST #2232 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2232 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I was so distracted by her inhumanly-small waist that I couldn't concentrate on much else, when she was on screen. Do corsets alone really do that? Did they CG her to make her look starving (but forget to do her arms?) How did she sing that way? Did they let her out of it when she stopped to eat? No wonder women were keeling over like fainting goats all the time. Etc.

[deadtree]

hahahahaha me too! Her waist was so distracting.

[lovelycudy]

That was all I could think about, her incredibly small waist.

[nyxelestia]

Probably the waistband. Making her that skinny with the waistband conveys that she is starving from poverty without having to resort to CG or actually starving her.

(Also, when you are hungry/starving, tightening something around your stomach is a good way to lessen the effect/sensation of hunger, making it at least a little less unbearable; Éponine may have simply tightened it that far because she was so hungry).

[(Anonymous)]

It doesn't convey that, though, and that's why it looks so freaky. She doesn't look overly thin or starving at all aside from a waist that is just randomly smaller than her head.

[nyxelestia]

Maybe it's a perception/personal taste thing, because "starving/impoverished" was very much what I got from her appearance. Granted, she looked more like she was recently impoverished than I think the movie had intended, but ultimately it still seemed to convey that to me. She was hungry, ergo she was tying that waistband really, really tightly so she wouldn't feel that hunger as much as if she loosened it.

It's something I've done myself when I was hungry and food wasn't in the immediate vicinity - in my case, it was grab a scarf, wrap it around your waist, and pull as tightly as possible. Boom, it's like you were never hungry. The downside is, of course, that it distorts your figure, and of course it can rearrange your internal organs if you wear it like that long enough. But outside of that, if you are hungry and are unlikely to be able to eat any time soon, it is a very practical thing to do.