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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.
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.
Fashion in the 1890s in Western countries is characterized by long elegant lines, tall collars, and the rise of sportswear. It was an era of great dress reforms led by the invention of the drop-frame safety bicycle , which allowed women the opportunity to ride bicycles more comfortably, and therefore, created the need for appropriate clothing.
1880s Fashion Plates of men, women, and children's fashion from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries; 1880s Fashion; From Reforming Fashion, 1850-1914: Politics, Health, and Art, Ohio State University : Olive wool tea gown, 1882; Bustle, corset and combination, 1884-1890; Navy wool tea gown c. 1889; What Victorians Wore: An Overview of ...
We measure the corset, pulling the measurements snug. And we tell the woman to wear it as tightly as she can comfortably do. Then we suggest a series of corsets, each a little smaller than the last, thus making the transition a slow and easy one from a big waist to a little one.
While the issue was adopted and discussed by several of the existing French women's rights organisations, the issue was not given priority and it was not until the great enthusiasm for bicycling in France in the 1890s that women in general adopted the bloomer costume with trousers and no corsets as sports wear. [21]
Since the corset fell out of use, the fashion industry has used the term "corset" to refer to undergarments or shirts which, to varying degrees, mimic the look of traditional corsets. While these modern corsets and corset tops often feature lacing or boning , and generally imitate a historical style of corsets, they by-and-large have very ...
Concerned at the gynaeological effects of corsets on women, Gaches-Sarraute began pamphleteering on the subject in the 1890s. Her novel design of corset, introduced in her 1900 book, helped bring about a change in corset fashions in the early twentieth century.