Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20150801001020/@comment-9464517-20150829134546

Alright, I'm super late here, but I think you guys might be mingling the Black Death of ~1348 with the Great Plague of 1665.



Also, Live, if you study pictures of Queen Elizabeth more closely, you can see that her dresses actually made her look really skinny. Her maids used tightened corsets to make her waist miniscule. See this picture, for example.