Corsetry

Stays, corsets and tight-lacing, the rational-dress and reform movements that argued against them, and the medical claims made on both sides.

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  1. - 1700s ladys stay man. Fitting by the bodice maker. Wearing a fontange headdress, and so likely from the 1690s or the first few years of the 1700s.
  2. - Corset of iron, 18th century.. Corset of iron for the of a displaced shoulder blade due to curvature of the spine. Order to reduce the weight the corset is fenestrated except over the right.
  3. - Planche II Interieur de la boutique d'un tailleur de corps(cut). Corsetiers cutting out and fitting in the 18th century.
  4. - Tight lacing. Two elderly and ugly women in a bedroom. One, who appears to be the mistress, clings with both hands to the post of a four-post bed, leaning backwards while her maid exerts all her strength to lace her stays.
  5. - Bath stays or the lady's steel shapes. The interior of a blacksmith's smithy. On the anvil is a portion of a pair of stays, at which two smiths strike with hammers, one (l.) holding the stays by pincers.
  6. - Fashion-before-Ease-Gillray. Fashion before Ease, or, A good Constitution sacrificed for a Fantastick Form G.W. [Gillray f.] SUMMARY: Cartoon showing Britannia clasping trunk of a large oak, while Thomas Paine tugs with both hands at her stay laces, his foot on her posterior.
  7. - 1822-boneless-frontlacing-shortstays-Costumes-Parisiens. A corset (or "short stays", as it would have been known in the English language at that time) which is boneless and laced in front, as worn over a chemise in Costumes Parisiens, 1822. By contrast, corsets which were intended to exert serious body-shaping force (such as those of the Victorian era) were longer (extending to and below the natural waist), stiffened with boning, and laced in back.
  8. - Woman in corset. Woman trying on a corset in a shop with another woman kneeling at her feet.
  9. - Corset, XIXth century, Podhale (back). XIX-th century corset made and worn in Podhale (back of corset).
  10. - Corset, XIXth century, Podhale (front). XIX-th century corset made and worn in Podhale.
  11. - Planchette Blankscheit. On the left is a Spoon Planchette as it was used in the 19th Century, in front of it a busk made ​​of dark hardwood as it was used the 16-18.
  12. - Corset. "Corset worn at wedding in 1852 of Henry and Amelia Lipscombe nee Wiggins. Pink silk and whalebone".
  13. - HealtBeautyMadameCaplinPlateIV1. A glance at his image, in her easy, upright, and graceful posture, shows how soon the body may be brought into an easy position by the use of our Corset and Reverso Contractor.
  14. - Corset chapman's 1863. An 1863 patent by Lumen L. Chapman of New Jersey to replace the corset.
  15. - Caplin - Health and Beauty1864 - 080bFig1. The stooping figure, induced by the ordinary ill-constructed Corset pressing the sternum.
  16. - Caplin - Health and Beauty1864 - 080cFig2. The same figure restored to its natural position by the Hygienic Corset, scientifically adapted to the body.
  17. - Caplin - Health and Beauty1864 - 132bc. 5 Lateral curvature of the spine.; Fig. The same figure restored by the Orthopedie Corset and Invisible Crutch.
  18. - Caplin - Health and Beauty1864 - 132cFig6. The same figure restored by the Orthopedic Corset and Invisible Crutch.
  19. - Corset - Royal Worcester Corset Company, ca. 1876 "Queen Bess". Named 'Queen Bess', this corset was awarded the bronze medal at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876 and was patented in 1877. A well documented piece, it is unique in its design, which has been carefully constructed to the wearer’s outer garments.
  20. - Corset - Royal Worcester Corset Company, ca. 1876 - Bon Ton. Known as the 'Bon Ton', this corset was awarded the bronze medal at the Centennial Exposition. The fine embroidery representing traditional motifs of oak leaves and wheat ears symbolize well-being and prosperity.
  21. - Corset1878taille46 300gram. A luxury hourglass corset from 1878, featuring a busk fastening at the front and lacing at the back.
  22. - Black satteen corset Harpers Bezar1882. A Corset in that special style which was in fashion in 1882.
  23. - Corset - Royal Worcester Corset Company, ca. 1885. Corset of stretch jersey, with locked clasps to ensure that the corset will not come undone during activity.
  24. - TheFamilyDoctorNov2 1889page145cut. This is a fantasy or a fiction about corsets and pair of stays from 1889.
  25. - 1890 corset by Tella. An 1890 wine satin French corset by Tella, owned by Cleveland residnt Helen Cowles.
  26. - EstomacCorset page017. Figure 1 (according to Boas); NORMAL THORAXES AND STOMACH; - - - - - - lower Edge of the liver _________ Diaphragm.
  27. - EstomacCorset page066. Figure 16 (according to nature). The right side of the thorax was left schematized to show the deformation of the thorax.
  28. - Calkins-corset-ad-1898. Earnest Elmo Calkins developed a series of ads for R G Corset Company while working in New York for Charles Austin Bates. The use of a bold photographic on the back cover of a mass circulation periodical was a new step for the company and a harbinger of Calkins's later development of visual selling strategies.
  29. - Woman wearing a corset. Photograph by A. Esme Collings of a woman wearing a corset circa 1900.
  30. - R and G corsets. R G Corset Never STRETCH The extreme straight front corset of 1900 was forehadowed by the moderately straight R G No. The 397 was, and ism the corset of comfort with the essence of style.
  31. - Coronet Corset Co. Illustration from the Ladies Home Journal, October 1900, contrasting the old Victorian corseted silhouette with the new Edwardian "S-bend" corseted silhouette.
  32. - Thomson's glove-fitting corset1900. Edited photograph of a woman, half showing her in her corset and undergarments, the other half showing her dressed in street wear with hat.
  33. - LaDiscussionScientifiqueDuCorset94b. Dimensions and silhouette of the same body in the fashionable corset around 1900.
  34. - Taillen-Verschluss -12 13-59-07. Waist fastener, this was used in the manufacture of a corset, probably around 1900.
  35. - Corset a membrane abdominale. From a French patent. A corset by of the abdomen.
  36. - A Girl's Bodice (1903). "This pretty evening bodice is of pale yellow louisine trimed with insertion and set-in applique of heavy white lace. The girdle is popular.
  37. - Concert bodice 1903. "This handsome theater or concert bodice is made of pale blue dotted net and lace. The ribbon is of black velvet and the girdle is of black satin.".
  38. - VousPouvezSerrerMessieursMonCorsetEstEnVALEINE. "Keep tightening, gentlemen. My corset's made of Valeine." or "Tighter, gentlemen.
  39. - CORSET NEOS DrGlenardLaSirene1906ad. "NEOS" Corset-Strap Dr Fr Glénard PATENTED S. L., PARIS THE "NEOS" is the corset that adapts most easily to all kinds of size.
  40. - Liberty Bodice. Freda Cox wearing a Liberty bodice in an early advertising photograph published between 1908 and 1910.
  41. - ChronicBackache1036fig6. 6.--Outline drawing of good corset applied to a model.
  42. - BZN 1909 05 16 21 Mieder Lehmann 1. Advertisement for Corsets within the Bozner Nachrichten as of 1909.
  43. - CorsetStyles1909-1910p03. CProperly tailored, the long slim effects are decidedly successful for well sexed women WOOLNOUGH'S SYBIL Style 500 The effect of the slim lines falling in their proper places on the figure, as they do in our "Tailored-for-the-Indi-vidual" Corsets, is marvellous. Really the prices of readymades only.
  44. - CorsetStyles1909-1910p03style500. Properly tailored, the long slim effects are decidedly successful for well sexed women WOOLNOUGH'S SYBIL Style 500 The effect of the slim lines falling in their proper places on the figure, as they do in our "Tailored-for-the-Indi-vidual" Corsets, is marvellous. Really the prices of readymades only.
  45. - CorsetStyles1909-1910p04. ZENON, The beautiful, in which the lines of the bust are emphasized. Prices, $4.50, $6.50, $10.00 and $12.50 The GOMETZA Corset, made in only four pieces.
  46. - CorsetStyles1909-1910p04A. ZENON, The beautiful, in which the lines of the bust are emphasized.
  47. - CorsetStyles1909-1910p04B. The GOMETZA Corset, made in only four pieces. Real art work in Corsetry that will mould any figure to perfection.
  48. - CorsetStyles1909-1910p05A. Tailored for the Individual WOOLNOUGH'S RIDING CORSET With Tricot Gore Unsurpassed for style and comfort.
  49. - CorsetStyles1909-1910p07B. Write for Self-Measure Forms SYBIL Style B Bust and Corset combined Prices $5.00, $8.00, $10.00 and $15.00.
  50. - CorsetStyles1909-1910p08back. Height and length are details at Woolnough's LACED FRONT Style 600 With one or two lacings Prices, $5.00, $7.00, $10.00 and $12.50 Back view of the laced front Corset, showing a beautifully smooth, perfect back. The elimination of the lacing promotes freer circulation along the spinal column.
  51. - CorsetStyles1909-1910p06-07. Mail Orders Filled Free Delivery to any Address REDUCING CORSET Style 400 Prices, $3.25, $4.50 and $7.00 MATERNITY CORSET Designed to give healthful and pre-sentableness. Prices, $4.00, $6.00, $10.00 and $15.00 FASHIONABLE HEALTH WAIST Style 200 With pockets to fill out bust.
  52. - Breathing corset. A man's breathing, and a woman's breathing in corset.
  53. - Toleration of the corset1054fig46. "Health-waists" may produce pressure downward and stoop. 46.--An average health waist: unless very loose and thin and with light skirts it may do harm.
  54. - Toleration of the corset1025fig1. 1, 2., Body forms that are factors in questions of corset postures and pressures. A thin build shows a long trunk seriously affected by constriction during adolescence.
  55. - LaDiscussionScientifiqueDuCorset92. CORSET CURRENTLY IN FAVOR OF THE PARISIENNES It has the merit of leaving free play of the lungs.
  56. - LaDiscussionScientifiqueDuCorset94c. Mold of an eighteen-year-old Parisienne who had never worn a corset.
  57. - Korsett, spileliv, Norsk Folkemuseum, NF., bilde 1. Corset in wowen linen, used in Oslo, Norway, from the collections of. Mifo Decaftro.
  58. - Gossard Corsets illustration, 1920. Drawing of a woman in a Gossard Corsets corset, from an ad by Seattle-based Fraser-Paterson Co.
  59. - Correct Corsetry. Illustration "Correct Corsetry" from a 1920 Fraser-Paterson Co. ad in Seattle magazine The Town Crier.
  60. - Deformation de la ligne de labdomen et des reins par le corset. Deformation of the line of the abdomen and kidneys by the corset. Left: fashionable corset about twenty years ago.
  61. - Barcley custom corsets03. Properly Corseted Figure The properly cor­seted woman may retain her natural loveliness long after the woman, who is careless about her corset, has become ill· proportioned and unattractive. Improperly Corseted Figure Note the incorrect posture, protruding abdomen and unsightly lines--­an example of the results of figure neglect.
  62. - Strammer. A bone of wood to tighten a pair of stays (corset).
  63. - Corselette. "Eezee" Berlei - Style E226 Size Large - 1930s.
  64. - DrWarner'sABDOMINAL. A corset from the booklet "20th century Models".
  65. - Instruction of underclothing for Japanese women 1951. The most formal way to wear the six items shown in the s in the following order: (1) brassiere (bra) (2) panties (made of knitted fabric) (3) corset (waist cincher with garter) (4) panties (flared silk panties) (4) chemise (camisole) (5) slip It is said that "even in informal occasions, a brassiere and corset are always worn.".
  66. - Fatal effects of tight-lacing John Johnson political & satirical. "A cutting wind or the fatal effects of tight-lacing" a satirical aquatint cartoon about the craze for tight-laced corsets. It depicts a women severed at the waist by a gust of strong wind.
  67. - PostureFoundationGarments09fig7a. Put the brassiere on correctly for a better fit.
  68. - Corset
  69. - Girdle. "Wrap-on"-Berlei - Style S.B.
  70. - Fitting of the Coiled Corset (cropped). A 2004 photo of the Coiled Corset, a form-encasing bodice created from coils of aluminum by Shaun Leane for Alexander McQueen. The Overlook, Autumn/Winter 1999 collection, Look 47.
  71. - Historia del Corset. Siglo XX.. Twentieth-century versions of the laced bodice are surveyed, from the Edwardian S-bend through girdles to the garment's later reappearance as outerwear.
  72. - The history of corsets. From sixteenth-century bodies through Edwardian straight-front shapes, the garment's changing silhouettes are traced alongside the boning, busks and lacing that produced each one.
  73. - Fashioning the Body: An Intimate History of the Silhouette. Corsets, crinolines, bustles and the padded undergarments beneath them are presented as the engineering that produced each era's fashionable body outline.
  74. - Victorian dress reform Top # 5 Facts. A rapid list format runs through the main planks of nineteenth-century dress reform, naming the garments proposed and the organisations that promoted them.
  75. - Pk The Museum of Savage Beauty: 'Spine' corset. Alexander McQueen's aluminium spine corset, made with Shaun Leane, stands in a retrospective display of his work, its vertebral column worn on the outside of the body.
  76. - The Rational Dress Society presents A History of Counter-Fashion. Taking its name from the Victorian dress-reform group, an artist collective performs a lecture on counter-fashion: garments made to refuse prevailing silhouettes, and the politics of dressing against the market.
  77. - OSCAR WILDE and VICTORIAN DRESS REFORM. Oscar Wilde lectured and wrote on dress while editing a women's magazine, promoting garments hung from the shoulders and aligning himself with the Rational Dress movement.
  78. - OSCAR WILDE and VICTORIAN DRESS REFORM. Oscar Wilde lectured and wrote on dress while editing a women's magazine, promoting garments hung from the shoulders and aligning himself with the Rational Dress movement.
  79. - How bloomers became a feminist fashion statement | BBC Ideas. Named for Amelia Bloomer, who publicised them in her temperance paper in 1851, the full trousers worn under a shortened skirt drew ridicule in the press and became shorthand for women's rights.
  80. - How bloomers became a feminist fashion statement | BBC Ideas. Named for Amelia Bloomer, who publicised them in her temperance paper in 1851, the full trousers worn under a shortened skirt drew ridicule in the press and became shorthand for women's rights.
  81. - how actresses talk about wearing corsets in movies. Press-junket remarks by film actresses about the discomfort of period costume are lined up against how the garments were cut and fitted for the screen rather than for daily wear.
  82. - how actresses talk about wearing corsets in movies. Press-junket remarks by film actresses about the discomfort of period costume are lined up against how the garments were cut and fitted for the screen rather than for daily wear.
  83. - Historia del brasier | La prenda de ropa que destronó al corsé, invento de mujeres. Women inventors hold key early patents in the brassiere's development, and their designs displaced the laced bodice as the standard foundation garment in the 1910s and 1920s.
  84. - Historia del brasier | La prenda de ropa que destronó al corsé, invento de mujeres. Women inventors hold key early patents in the brassiere's development, and their designs displaced the laced bodice as the standard foundation garment in the 1910s and 1920s.
  85. - How Victorian Men Taught Us to Hate Corsets: The Biggest Lie in Fashion History. The argument here is that nineteenth-century male physicians and satirists, not the women wearing them, built the case against stays, and that their rhetoric still shapes how the garment is described.
  86. - How Victorian Men Taught Us to Hate Corsets: The Biggest Lie in Fashion History. The argument here is that nineteenth-century male physicians and satirists, not the women wearing them, built the case against stays, and that their rhetoric still shapes how the garment is described.
  87. - Les tailleurs, histoire d’une corporation disparue | L'instant culture. Tailoring as an organised trade in France is traced through its guild structure, apprenticeships and the bespoke skills that industrial clothing manufacture displaced.
  88. - Les tailleurs, histoire d’une corporation disparue | L'instant culture. Tailoring as an organised trade in France is traced through its guild structure, apprenticeships and the bespoke skills that industrial clothing manufacture displaced.
  89. - LECTURE: The Isabella MacTavish Fraser Gown - The Historical Contexts of a 1785 Tartan Wedding Dress. A surviving 1785 tartan wedding gown from the Scottish Highlands anchors a talk on its cut, its cloth, and the household and marriage customs that produced it.
  90. - LECTURE: The Isabella MacTavish Fraser Gown - The Historical Contexts of a 1785 Tartan Wedding Dress. A surviving 1785 tartan wedding gown from the Scottish Highlands anchors a talk on its cut, its cloth, and the household and marriage customs that produced it.
  91. - Off With The Corsets: A Brief History of Dress Reform in the Nineteenth-Century United States. Nineteenth-century American reformers proposed shorter skirts, trousers and unrestricted bodices; the talk covers who advocated them, what they wore, and how the public responded.
  92. - Off With The Corsets: A Brief History of Dress Reform in the Nineteenth-Century United States. Nineteenth-century American reformers proposed shorter skirts, trousers and unrestricted bodices; the talk covers who advocated them, what they wore, and how the public responded.
  93. - Cuerpos atados: Breve historia del corse. A short Spanish-language account covers who wore stays, what they were made from, and how their meaning shifted between the Renaissance courts and the twentieth century.
  94. - Cuerpos atados: Breve historia del corse. A short Spanish-language account covers who wore stays, what they were made from, and how their meaning shifted between the Renaissance courts and the twentieth century.
  95. - Victorian Dress Reform. Reformers in Britain and the United States argued for lighter, suspended clothing on health and mobility grounds; their proposed garments and the arguments behind them are set out.
  96. - Victorian Dress Reform. Reformers in Britain and the United States argued for lighter, suspended clothing on health and mobility grounds; their proposed garments and the arguments behind them are set out.
  97. - I Wore a (Medical) Corset for 5 Years. How do Victorian Corsets Compare?. Years of wearing a prescribed medical brace for a spinal condition inform a first-hand comparison with reconstructed Victorian stays, covering pressure, support and breathing.
  98. - I Wore a (Medical) Corset for 5 Years. How do Victorian Corsets Compare?. Years of wearing a prescribed medical brace for a spinal condition inform a first-hand comparison with reconstructed Victorian stays, covering pressure, support and breathing.
  99. - How Did They Pee in Those Dresses? A Superficial History of Underwear. Split drawers, layered petticoats and the mechanics of managing a full skirt answer the practical question people most often ask about nineteenth-century dress.
  100. - How Did They Pee in Those Dresses? A Superficial History of Underwear. Split drawers, layered petticoats and the mechanics of managing a full skirt answer the practical question people most often ask about nineteenth-century dress.
  101. - Antique Corset Museum European Victorian Corsets. Victorian stays of European make are shown from a private collection, close on the coutil, the spoon busks and the decorative flossing that reinforced the boning channels.
  102. - Antique Corset Museum European Victorian Corsets. Victorian stays of European make are shown from a private collection, close on the coutil, the spoon busks and the decorative flossing that reinforced the boning channels.
  103. - La historia del corsé y sus mentiras. Repeated assertions in Spanish-language popular history about laced stays are weighed against surviving garments, period texts and what the objects themselves can support.
  104. - La historia del corsé y sus mentiras. Repeated assertions in Spanish-language popular history about laced stays are weighed against surviving garments, period texts and what the objects themselves can support.
  105. - if people in the future talked about bras the way we talk about corsets. A satirical framing device has future commentators describe the twentieth-century bra in the same lurid terms now used for stays, to show how a common garment becomes a historical scandal.
  106. - if people in the future talked about bras the way we talk about corsets. A satirical framing device has future commentators describe the twentieth-century bra in the same lurid terms now used for stays, to show how a common garment becomes a historical scandal.
  107. - Fashion Historian Busts Corset Myths ft. Reconstructing History/Kass McGann. A pattern-maker who reconstructs historical garments joins a discussion of what extant stays actually measure, how they were laced, and where the popular account departs from the objects.
  108. - Fashion Historian Busts Corset Myths ft. Reconstructing History/Kass McGann. A pattern-maker who reconstructs historical garments joins a discussion of what extant stays actually measure, how they were laced, and where the popular account departs from the objects.
  109. - Ep. 8 La Historia del Corset. Construction and wear are discussed together: how stays were boned and laced, who made them, and how the fashionable waist measurement shifted across the nineteenth century.
  110. - Ep. 8 La Historia del Corset. Construction and wear are discussed together: how stays were boned and laced, who made them, and how the fashionable waist measurement shifted across the nineteenth century.
  111. - Reacting to the \"History of the Corset\" || Busting (very weird) corset myths. A dressmaker trained in historical construction works through widely repeated claims about stays and corsets, separating documented tight-lacing extremes from the fainting-couch folklore that grew around them.
  112. - Reacting to the \"History of the Corset\" || Busting (very weird) corset myths. A dressmaker trained in historical construction works through widely repeated claims about stays and corsets, separating documented tight-lacing extremes from the fainting-couch folklore that grew around them.
  113. - Reacting To Fashion History TikToks. Short-form claims about historical clothing circulating on social platforms are checked one by one against surviving garments and period sources.
  114. - Reacting To Fashion History TikToks. Short-form claims about historical clothing circulating on social platforms are checked one by one against surviving garments and period sources.
  115. - Civil War Dress From the Inside-Out with Erika Holst of the Illinois State Museum.. A museum curator dresses a model layer by layer in 1860s American clothing, from chemise and drawers through corset, hoops and petticoats to the finished day dress.
  116. - Civil War Dress From the Inside-Out with Erika Holst of the Illinois State Museum.. A museum curator dresses a model layer by layer in 1860s American clothing, from chemise and drawers through corset, hoops and petticoats to the finished day dress.
  117. - Pre-Raphaelite & Aesthetic Dress Movement: The History of Victorian Fashion Reform. Loose, uncorseted gowns in medieval colours were worn by women in Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic circles, a deliberate alternative to the structured mainstream dress of late Victorian Britain.
  118. - Pre-Raphaelite & Aesthetic Dress Movement: The History of Victorian Fashion Reform. Loose, uncorseted gowns in medieval colours were worn by women in Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic circles, a deliberate alternative to the structured mainstream dress of late Victorian Britain.
  119. - 5 things you (probably) won’t know about corsets with Bernadette Banner. Handling garments from a museum collection, a dress historian corrects five common assumptions about how stays were laced, worn and lived in.
  120. - 5 things you (probably) won’t know about corsets with Bernadette Banner. Handling garments from a museum collection, a dress historian corrects five common assumptions about how stays were laced, worn and lived in.
  121. - The Bustle: A History of Fashion and Function. Wire cages, horsehair pads and tapes built the projecting rear silhouette of the 1870s and 1880s, a shape that rose, collapsed and returned within two decades.
  122. - The Bustle: A History of Fashion and Function. Wire cages, horsehair pads and tapes built the projecting rear silhouette of the 1870s and 1880s, a shape that rose, collapsed and returned within two decades.
  123. - The Corset Myth: Debunking History’s Most Controversial Undergarment. Claims that the corset routinely deformed skeletons and displaced organs are set against surviving garments, period medical writing and the measurements of extant stays.
  124. - The Corset Myth: Debunking History’s Most Controversial Undergarment. Claims that the corset routinely deformed skeletons and displaced organs are set against surviving garments, period medical writing and the measurements of extant stays.
  125. - THE SHOCKING HISTORY OF CORSETS | From hidden under wear to modern fashion statement. Once strictly an undergarment, the laced bodice reappeared on stages and runways as visible clothing; the route from concealment to display is followed decade by decade.
  126. - THE SHOCKING HISTORY OF CORSETS | From hidden under wear to modern fashion statement. Once strictly an undergarment, the laced bodice reappeared on stages and runways as visible clothing; the route from concealment to display is followed decade by decade.
  127. - HISTORIA DE EL CORSET. A compressed run through the laced undergarment's shifting shapes, from rigid Renaissance bodies to the long-line Edwardian cut.
  128. - HISTORIA DE EL CORSET. A compressed run through the laced undergarment's shifting shapes, from rigid Renaissance bodies to the long-line Edwardian cut.
  129. - La Mode, la Femme et ses Dictats : Une Histoire de Pression et d’Évolution. Successive fashionable silhouettes in Europe are read as instructions about what a woman's body should look like, and as commercial systems that sold the means to achieve each one.
  130. - La Mode, la Femme et ses Dictats : Une Histoire de Pression et d’Évolution. Successive fashionable silhouettes in Europe are read as instructions about what a woman's body should look like, and as commercial systems that sold the means to achieve each one.
  131. - Corsets and Laudanum: The Dangerous Beauty Secrets of Victorian Women | Bedtime History for Sleep. Laudanum and other opiate patent preparations sold over the counter in Victorian Britain sit alongside laced undergarments in a slow narration of nineteenth-century domestic remedies and dress.
  132. - Corsets and Laudanum: The Dangerous Beauty Secrets of Victorian Women | Bedtime History for Sleep. Laudanum and other opiate patent preparations sold over the counter in Victorian Britain sit alongside laced undergarments in a slow narration of nineteenth-century domestic remedies and dress.
  133. - La Historia Prohibida del Brasier: la Prenda que Reorganizó el Cuerpo. When support moved from a boned torso garment to two cups on straps, the whole architecture of the fashionable body changed; the shift and its early patents are traced here.
  134. - La Historia Prohibida del Brasier: la Prenda que Reorganizó el Cuerpo. When support moved from a boned torso garment to two cups on straps, the whole architecture of the fashionable body changed; the shift and its early patents are traced here.
  135. - Ok, Now Let’s Talk About The Dark Side of Corsets. Having previously argued the myths were overstated, a costume historian turns to what was genuinely documented: extreme lacing, advertising that promoted it, and the practices that drew period medical objection.
  136. - Ok, Now Let’s Talk About The Dark Side of Corsets. Having previously argued the myths were overstated, a costume historian turns to what was genuinely documented: extreme lacing, advertising that promoted it, and the practices that drew period medical objection.
  137. - L'Histoire du Corset — L'Arme de Beauté Qui Redessinait les Femmes. Across four centuries in Europe the laced bodice reshaped the torso according to changing ideals, its construction moving from whalebone and linen to steel and coutil.
  138. - L'Histoire du Corset - L'Arme de Beauté Qui Redessinait les Femmes. Across four centuries in Europe the laced bodice reshaped the torso according to changing ideals, its construction moving from whalebone and linen to steel and coutil.
  139. - Historia del Corsé ¿Elegancia o Tortura La Fascinante Evolución de una Prenda Controversial. Whether the laced bodice is best understood as fashion or constraint is put as an open question, with the garment's evolution from Renaissance stays to modern revivals laid out.
  140. - Historia del Corsé ¿Elegancia o Tortura La Fascinante Evolución de una Prenda Controversial. Whether the laced bodice is best understood as fashion or constraint is put as an open question, with the garment's evolution from Renaissance stays to modern revivals laid out.
  141. - Edwardian Corsets & Fashion | Antique Corset Museum Lecture. A collector of antique stays walks through Edwardian examples from her holdings, covering the straight-front cut, construction materials, and how surviving garments are dated and conserved.
  142. - Edwardian Corsets & Fashion | Antique Corset Museum Lecture. A collector of antique stays walks through Edwardian examples from her holdings, covering the straight-front cut, construction materials, and how surviving garments are dated and conserved.
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