Corsets, 4-inch heels, and foot binding.
I hiked the Chilkoot Trail in 2000. When I was writing about it for Alaska magazine, somehow I stumbled across the information that women in that time, 1898-1899, wore on average forty pounds of clothes. Can you imagine hiking up that in forty pounds of clothes? That’s, what, like eight 5-pound chickens, or one three-year…
