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2. 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.

3. Tightlacing - Wikipedia

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   A bar chart of waist sizes achieved by London fashion models of 1896 over the course of six months of waist training. [12] Note that the "before" and "after" waist sizes are both corseted sizes. Every morning one of the maids used to come to assist us to dress, and a governess superintended, to see that our corsets were drawn as tight as possible.

4. 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.

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

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   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 ...

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. Nicola Coughlan Tells Off Trolls Claiming ‘Bridgerton ...

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   While it’s true her body shape might be changing, that’s only because of the amount of corsets Coughlan has been required to wear over the course of filming three seasons of the Netflix series.

8. History of cleavage - Wikipedia

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   By that time, Cretan women in Knossos were wearing ornamental fitted bodices with open cleavage, sometimes with a peplum. [6] Another set of Minoan figurines from 1500 BC show women in bare-bosomed corsets. [7] [8] Ancient Greek women adorned their cleavage with a long pendant necklace called a kathema. [9]

9. Hourglass figure - Wikipedia

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   Even though the corsets of this time were able to give women the body of their dreams, it was also harmful and damaging to their bodies over time. This well-known historical attempt at changing a woman's body shape — corseting of the waist to make an hourglass figure — had lasting effects on the skeleton, deforming the ribs and misaligning ...