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My Beauty Obsession showcases the extreme ways in which people strive to be beautiful. From a mother who has used a corset to achieve her 18-inch waist to a woman who underwent numerous surgeries ...
Boarding schools for such young women incorporated corset training into their education, instructing students to sleep in corsets and achieve ever-smaller waistlines. [ 4 ] In the late years of the Victorian era , medical reports and rumors claimed that tightlacing was fatally detrimental to health (see Victorian dress reform ). [ 1 ]
The purpose of the boning in a corset varied slightly from era to era. Generally, the cinching/shaping properties of corsetry puts strain onto the fabric from which the corset is made. The boning supports the desired shape and prevents wrinkling of the corset fabric. Bones, and the substances used for the purpose, are generically called boning.
Bridgerton is back, and Season 3 leading lady Nicola Coughlan is setting the record straight about her waist. The 37-year-old actress, who plays Penelope Featherington on the hit Netflix series ...
A corset brace resembles a historical corset, but is typically made with elastic fabric and plastic boning to allow for more flexibility. Metal boning may be used if more rigidity is needed. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Artist Andy Warhol was shot in 1968 and never fully recovered; he wore a corset for the rest of his life.
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An example of a training corset. It has long, stiff shoulder straps which raise the lower ribs. A training corset is generally a corset used in body modification.A training corset is believed to help orthopedic issues (such as in attempt to correct a poor posture) and it is believed to help cosmetic issues (such as waistline, commonly called waist training or in more extreme cases tightlacing ...
By the way, another possible good source for this page might be The Corset: A Cultural History, by Valerie Steele; also, Corsets and Crinolines by Norah Waugh appears to show you how to construct a corset (according to the one who recommended it to me, "This book is a must for corset makers - although you will need some pattern cutting know-how ...