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  2. Tightlacing - Wikipedia

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    An advertisement for corsets with waist sizes from 15 to 23 inches (38 to 58 cm) A woman wearing a tight-laced corset, 1890. Note that Victorian photo editing techniques were likely used on this image, simulating a narrower waist.

  3. History of corsets - Wikipedia

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    Woman's stays c. 1730–1740. Silk plain weave with supplementary weft-float patterning, stiffened with whalebone. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, M.63.24.5. [1]The corset is a supportive undergarment for women, dating, in Europe, back several centuries, evolving as fashion trends have changed and being known, depending on era and geography, as a pair of bodies, stays and corsets.

  4. Corset controversy - Wikipedia

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    Women in 1870s gowns wearing corsets. The corset controversy was a moral panic and public health concern around corsets in the 19th century. Corsets, variously called a pair of bodys or stays, were worn by European women from the late 16th century onward, changing their form as fashions changed. In spite of radical change to fashion ...

  5. Corset - Wikipedia

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    Corsets were an essential undergarment in European women's fashion from the 17th century to the early 20th century. In the 17th and 18th centuries they were commonly known as "stays" and had a more conical shape. This later evolved into the curvaceous 19th century form which is commonly associated with the corset today.

  6. ‘The Gilded Age’ and ‘The Great’ Costume Designers Detail ...

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    Corsets were an essential undergarment for Victorian women, which lifted and supported the bosom, created a flat front and provided women a form-fitted figure. But they were notoriously restrictive.

  7. 'Bridgerton' is making corsets cool again. But are they safe ...

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    "Sometimes they come in a fitting for a fashion designer and they put a corset on me and I'm like, ‘Oh, you can go tight,'" she told the publication. "I think if you wear corsetry for long ...

  8. Victorian dress reform - Wikipedia

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    Tight-lacing' became part of the corset controversy: dress reformists claimed that the corset was prompted by vanity and foolishness, and harmful to health. The reported health risks included damaged and rearranged internal organs, compromised fertility; weakness and general depletion of health.

  9. Frances Fisher: 'Titanic' Corsets Were So Tight 'Nobody ... - AOL

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    Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Billy Zane and More Read article For most of the film, Fisher, 70, Kate Winslet and other stars were dressed in corsets as the project was set in 1912 — a time ...

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