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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.
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.
However, wearing a corset does affect a number of bodily functions and can be deleterious to the wearer's health, especially when worn regularly over a long period of time; during the Victorian era stays were typically begun at or before the onset of puberty, with reported ages ranging from 7 to 13.
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.
Recently, when people thought "corset," the first image that probably popped into their head was Scarlett O'Hara getting her corset laces tugged. Despite its twisted, dark history, this fashion ...
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. Tightlacing (also called corset training) is the practice of wearing an increasingly tightly laced corset to ...
Thankfully, at the turn of the century, women began wearing corsets of more forgiving fabric, but they still would have been constrictive and hot during a long day at the racetrack. Gloves ...
1837 dress. During the start of Queen Victoria's reign in 1837, the ideal shape of the Victorian woman was a long slim torso emphasised by wide hips. To achieve a low and slim waist, corsets were tightly laced and extended over the abdomen and down towards the hips. [4]