One Vogue writer explores if better posture can lead to a better life
“S tand up straight.” I am 13 years old, patiently waiting for the organ to launch into “O Thou the Central Orb,” when I hear these words and feel two hands yanking back my cassocked shoulders. Towering over my peers in the choir stalls at the front of Holy Trinity Church Northwood, just outside London, my face flushes. I am tall for my age, the second tallest in my class, and already developing an apologetic stoop as a result.
Why are we so obsessed with “good” posture? Why do we still have the mistaken belief that ramrod straight backs—which originated, by the way, in military drill formation circa the late 16th century—are synonymous with good deportment, and even moral uprightness? “We are the way we stand, ideally,” according to Sander Gilman, whose 2014 book,explores why posture is evoked again and again to represent the ideal, the beautiful, the perfect body.
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