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Toward the beginning of Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland (2010), Alice’s mother (Lindsay Duncan) chastises her daughter for not wearing a corset or stockings. Alice (Mia Wasikowska) replies, “What if it was agreed that proper was wearing a codfish on your head—would you wear it? For me a corset is like a codfish.”
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Spooner, C. (2013). Costuming the Outsider in Tim Burton’s Cinema, or, Why a Corset Is like a Codfish. In: Weinstock, J.A. (eds) The Works of Tim Burton. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137370839_3
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