Ethel Granger

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Ethel Granger (born April 12, 1905 in Cambridgeshire as Ethel Mary Wilson, † January - March 1982 in Peterborough ) was one of the most famous main characters in the development of contemporary piercing and body modification in Europe. As the world record holder with the narrowest recorded waist size, she entered the Guinness Book of Records in 1939 with a waist circumference of only 33 cm.

Life

"Ethel was a simple, uncultivated girl who wore the misshapen clothes of the 1920s". As a young woman, she met the astronomer William Arnold Granger (July 1, 1904, † March 4, 1974), whom she married in 1928. The marriage resulted in a daughter, Wilhelmina Granger 1930-2001. Her husband asked Ethel Granger to wear corsets so that she would get a slim waist. She wore this day and night - later also a specially made steel ring - and finally tied her waist to a circumference of 33 centimeters.

The woman's Sunday Mirror featured Ethel Granger on June 16, 1967. Her measurements are 36/13/38, she has twelve piercings in each ear, eleven holes run along the edge, and one is placed in the middle. She also has cheek piercings , both nipples , with two piercings in the septum on each side of her nose. Her husband, William, had stretched one of her septa and pierced both nipples with shell and lobe piercings. At first she wasn't comfortable wearing her jewelry and showing off her figure in public, but after the war, with the change in fashion, Ethel and William started breaking down barriers. The septum rings she wore in the privacy of her home for her husband's pleasure were worn in public and she no longer hid the numerous piercings in her ears with her hair.

In September 2011, the Italian edition of Vogue fashion magazine dedicated an issue to Ethel Granger.

“It would be inaccurate to see the Ethel and William Granger story simply as the sadistic desires of a sophisticated, sexually perverted husband who wanted to cripple his wife: they were a couple who expressed themselves and embraced a subculture that was at the time , in the late 20s, 30s and 40s, had magazines like London Life as a reference point. "

- VOGUE italia from September 1st, 2011

literature

  • Guinness World Records 2015 Volume 60. Publisher Guinness World Records 2014, ISBN 1 908 8437 05 .
  • Elayne Angel : Piercing Bible: The Definitive Guide to Safe Body Piercing . Crossing Press 2009, ISBN 1-580-91193-5 , p. 13.
  • Valerie Steele : Fetish: fashion, sex and power. Oxford University Press 1997, ISBN 0-195-1157-91 .
  • Martin Mobberley: Return to the Far Side of Planet Moore !: Rambling Through Observations, Friendships and Antics of Sir Patrick Moore. Springer 2015, ISBN 3-319-157-809 , pp. 60–62.
  • Meredith GF Worthen: Sexual Deviance and Society: A sociological examination. Routledge 2016, ISBN 1-317-5933-75 , p. 303.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Valerie Steele: Fetish: fashion, sex and power. Oxford University Press 1997, ISBN 0-195-1157-91 , p. 79.
  2. ↑ Weekly World News, December 3, 1991, p. 5.
  3. ↑ Vogue cover model shocks with 33cm waist MADONNA magazine from August 31, 2011
  4. ^ British Astronomical Association: Journal of the British Astronomical Association, Vol. 59-61 , 1949, p. 67.
  5. ^ Rossie Atwell: The Grangers of Peterborough - an astronomical family. In: Journal of the British Astronomical Association, Vol. 100, No. 5, pp. 214-217
  6. ↑ vogue.it: Ethel Granger The exclusive pictures of the woman with the smallest waist ever. From September 1, 2011
  7. ↑ BBC News: The short life and swinging times of London Life Magazine of October 13, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Granger, Ethel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilson, Ethel Mary (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British representative of body modification
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Cambridgeshire
DATE OF DEATH between January 1982 and March 1982
Place of death Peterborough