���Corsets have always been worn, will be worn, and should be worn" Did pioneer women wear corsets? I didn't think much about it until I began my second novel and my protagonist, a 19th century Utah woman, needed dresses and skirts and shoes. But what about a corset? Surely not, frontier women plowed fields. They built fences, shoveled snow off their roofs, planted gardens, hauled water, chopped wood, and scrubbed floors. It took a whole day just to do laundry and it was a backbreaking...