The question of wearing a corset in the 21st century reached fever pitch in 2015, when Lily James spoke about the way wearing a corset on the set of Disney’s Cinderella impacted her body.

“When it was on we would be on continuous days so we wouldn’t stop for lunch or a lovely tea… you’d be sort of eating on the move,” James told E! News. “In that case, I couldn’t untie the corset. So if you ate food it didn’t really digest properly and I’d be burping all afternoon in Richard [Madden]’s face, and it was just really sort of unpleasant. I’d have soup so that I could still eat but it wouldn’t get stuck.”

Yes, both James and Fanning looked gorgeous in their corseted princess gowns. But we have to end this relentless red carpet charade and stop forcing women into tight gowns that restrict normal bodily functions, squeeze internal organs into unnatural shapes and, ultimately, prove so constrictive that they cut off the blood and air supply to the head.

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