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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.
The corset was restricted to aristocratic fashion, and was a fitted bodice stiffened with reeds called bents, wood, or whalebone. [20] [25] Skirts were held in the proper shape by a farthingale or hoop skirt. In Spain, the cone-shaped Spanish farthingale remained in fashion into the early 17th century.
Front Claps for corsets. A busk (also spelled busque) is a rigid element of a corset at the centre front of the garment. [1] Two types exist, one- and two-part busks. [2]Single-piece busks were used in "stays" and bodices from the sixteenth to early nineteenth centuries and were intended to keep the front of the corset or bodice straight and upright.
The early 19th century brought a very different style of corset (still called "stays"). A return to the natural or "classical" form was embraced by fashion, and for the first time in corset history, the bust was separated. To achieve and enhance the separation of the bust, the "busk" was used. The busk was essentially a large, rigid "popsicle ...
By the 14th century CE, the proto-bra was in development in Europe. From approximately the 16th century CE onward, the corset dominated the undergarments of wealthier women in the Western world. Corsets came in varying lengths, with some designed only to support the bust, while others extended down to shape the waist.
Think: Elizabethan-era corsets and dresses with intricate and beautiful designs and cuts—long admired and studied, but delicate and demonstrating “inevitable decay.” The exhibit is broken ...
As essential as corsets are to the 18th century, they are equally as important to period costume design in the 21st century. However, as period-era dramas filled the air, costume designers of many ...
Clemente points out that all fashion comes down to “body distortion,” but that unlike other body-distorting garments, corsets have stuck around, popping in and out of favor within modern ...