What's a Wasp Waist?

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I've heard the term "wasp waist," but never really understood it until I came upon an unaltered dress that once belonged to the Empress Elisabeth, known as "Sisi" in Austria. She was a celebrated beauty, married at 16 to her cousin the Emperor Franz Joseph. She pretty much invented anorexia in her age, dieting obsessively…

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