Why did some women and government officials in England oppose the ideals of womanhood and campaigned for dress reforms?

As the suffrage movement developed, many women began campaigning for dress reform:
(i) Women’s magazines described how tight dresses and corsets caused deformities and illness among young girls.
(ii) Such clothing restricted body growth and hampered blood circulation.
(iii) Muscles remained underdeveloped and the spines got bent.
(iv) Doctors reported that many women were regularly complaining of acute weakness, felt Ianguid, and fainted frequently. Corsets then became necessary to hold up the weakened spine.
(v) Many government officials were alarmed at the health implications of the prevailing dress amongst women. They stated that the effect of a light cord round the neck and tight lacing differ only in degrees. For the strangulations are both fatal. To wear tight stays in many CASES was to wither, to waste, to die.