CORSET

The most common and well-known use of corsets is to slim the body and make it
conform to a fashionable silhouette. For women, this most frequently emphasizes a
curvy figure by reducing the waist and thereby exaggerating the bust and hips.
However, in some periods, corsets have been worn to achieve a tubular straight-up-
and-down shape, which involved minimizing the bust and hips.
 SPECIAL TYPES
There are some special types of corsets and corset-like devices which incorporate
boning.

Corset dress:-
See also: Bondage corset
A corset dress (also known as hobble corset because it produces similar restrictive
effects to a hobble skirt) is a long corset. It is like an ordinary corset, but it is long
enough to cover the legs, partially or totally. It thus looks like a dress, hence the name.
A person wearing a corset dress can have great difficulty in walking up and down the
stairs (especially if wearing high-heeled footwear) and may be unable to sit down if the
boning is too stiff.
Other types of corset dresses are created for unique high fashion looks by a few modern
corset makers. These modern styles are functional as well as fashionable and are
designed to be worn with comfort for a dramatic look.

Neck corset:-
A neck corset is a type of posture collar incorporating stays and it is generally not
considered to be a true corset.
 CORSET HISTORY
By the middle of the sixteenth century, corsets were a commonly worn garment
among European and British women. The corset in order to maintain its stiff shape.

When was the first corset invented?

In the later 16th century, "French Bodies" was a term commonly used for the
stiffened undergarment. In 1577, they were worn in France: French women
have inconceivably narrow waists...over the chemise they wear a corset or
bodice, that they call a 'corps pique', which makes their shape more delicate
and slender.

When were corsets most popular?

Here are her top three misunderstood facts about
corsets: 1. Thirteen-inch waists are a thing of myths.
Even though so-called “tight-lacing” was popular
during the late1800s, women rarely reduced their
waists more than 1-2 inches.
Woman's corset (stays) c.
1730–1740. Silk plain
weave with

Group of five
corsets, late 19th
and early 20th
century
 CONSTRUCTION
Corsets are typically constructed of a flexible material (like cloth, particularly leather)
stiffened with boning (also called ribs or stays) inserted into channels in the cloth or leather. In
the 18th and early 19th century, thin strips of baleen, also called whalebone, were favoured for
the boning . Plastic is now the most commonly used material for lightweight, faux corsets and
the majority of poor-quality corsets.

 Corsets are held together by lacing, usually (though not always) at the back. Tightening or
loosening the lacing produces corresponding changes in the firmness of the corset. Depending
on the desired effect and time period, corsets can be laced from the top down, from the
bottom up, or both up from the bottom and down from the top, using two laces that meet in
the middle. In the Victorian heyday of corsets, a well-to-do woman's corset laces would be
tightened by her maid, and a gentleman's by his valet. However, Victorian corsets also had a
buttoned or hooked front opening called a busk. If the corset was worn loosely, it was possible
to leave the lacing as adjusted and take the corset on and off using the front opening. (If the
corset is worn snugly, this method will damage the busk if the lacing is not significantly
loosened beforehand). Self-lacing is very difficult with tight lacing - also called waist training -
which strives for the utmost possible reduction of the waist. The type of corset and bodice
lacing became a refined mark of class; women who could not afford servants often wore front-
laced bodices.
 The Victorian corset
When the exaggerated shoulders disappeared, the waist itself had to be cinched tighter in
order to achieve the same effect. The focus of the fashionable silhouette of the mid- and late
19th century was an hourglass figure with a tiny waist. It is in the 1840s and 1850s that tight
lacing first became popular. The corset differed from the earlier stays in numerous ways. The
corset no longer ended at the hips, but flared out and ended several inches below the waist. The
corset was exaggeratedly curvaceous rather than funnel-shaped. Spiral steel stays curved with
the figure. While many corsets were still sewn by hand to the wearer's measurements, there
was also a thriving market in cheaper mass-produced corsets.

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OLD CORSETS IN 1900
 DIFF IN CORSET AND WAIST TRAINER
A corset is a garment worn to hold and contour the torso into a desired shape for aesthetic or
medical purposes. They are typically made out of a flexible material such as cloth or leather.
Waist training corsets have spring steel boning inserted into channels.

Corsets are held together by lacing, usually at the back. When training your waist using
corsets lacing, you are pulling your ribs far beyond their natural point causing your internal
organs to shift in order to adjust to the corsets constriction. This can cause health
problems including elevated blood pressure, uterine prolapse caused by the pressure,
constipation, headaches, acid reflux, difficult breathing and broken ribs. This is a very
extreme method of waist training and should not be taken lightly!

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