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While support for fashionable dress contested that corsets maintained an upright, ‘good figure’, as a necessary physical structure for moral and well-ordered society, dress reformists contested that women’s fashions were not only physically detrimental but “the results of male conspiracy to make women subservient by cultivating them in ...
The word corset is a diminutive of the Old French word cors (meaning "body", and itself derived from the Latin corpus): the word therefore means "little body".The craft of corset construction is known as corsetry, as is the general wearing of them.
Classic corset from 1913 A bustier ( UK : / ˈ b uː s t i eɪ , ˈ b ʌ s t -/ BOO -stee-ay, BUST -ee-ay , US : / b uː ˈ s t j eɪ , ˌ b uː s t i ˈ eɪ , ˌ b ʌ s t -/ boo- STYAY , BOO -stee- AY , BUST -ee- AY ) or bustiere is a form-fitting garment for women traditionally worn as lingerie .
The fact that Circassian women were traditionally encouraged to wear corsets in order to keep their posture straight might have shaped their wasp waist as a result. In the late 18th century, it was claimed by Western European couturiers that "the Circassian Corset is the only one which displays, without indelicacy, the shape of the bosom to the ...
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 Royal Worcester Corset Company, was founded as The Worcester Skirt Company by David Hale Fanning in 1861 in Worcester, MA, and first specialized in making hoop skirts. [1] In 1872 the company changed its name to the Worcester Corset Co., to reflect its change of direction from hoop skirts to torso shaping.