Here and in the 19th century, the ladies had to look no worse than the famous portrait or a picture in a fashion magazine Bashny.Net

Here and in the 19th century, the ladies had to deal with some challenges: how to look no worse than the famous portrait or a picture in a fashion magazine?



Women's magazines of the time were filled with advertisements for pills and potions to correct deficiencies female appearance. For example, offers "Cream for a bust", which is rubbed into the skin of the breast. Advertising claims that if you use the cream regularly, then it will be possible to achieve magical results. In France, the widely publicized "Oriental Pills", also increases the breast.

But if the pills and potions could not cope with the task of increasing the bust, then come to the aid unit «Princess Bust Developer», like vantus, which if you believe the advertising, developed chest muscles, strengthens capillaries and helps get rid of sagging skin.



Various methods have been tried and tested ladies. Those who were not able to achieve a result by means of pills, creams and apparatus, asked for help to the dressmaker.
For example, in the 1860s, in a dress, to give the desired volume in the chest area, sewn wool or rubber gaskets.



Or frills sewn inside or outside the underwear.









Sometimes cunning sewed corsets



Later, came to the aid of patenting "bust improver» «Lemon Cup».

«Lemon Cup» bust improver, 1890

For example, the «Lemon Cup» recalls the two circular pads inserted in a simple white cotton bag. But it is not so simple! Inside these bags is a spring, which is hidden in the depths of horse volosa.Pruzhiny filler strips attached whalebone sewn horizontally.

When pressed against the corset underwear, chest presses on whalebone, and he - squeezed out the spring, and this gave the impression of a large bust.



Woman's Bust Improver (Falsies), circa 1900





WOVEN CELLULOID and COTTON BUST IMPROVER, 1890's. In this embodiment, the rigid cup celluloid filled with cotton. Top worn cheholchik muslin.

But when fashion became intricately curved S-shaped silhouette,







the ladies, in addition to corset bodice has had to wear - bustier «monobosom» - a tricky engineering construction made of cotton and whalebone.







Woman's Bust Improver, 1905 (outside)





Woman's Bust Improver, 1905 (inside)



Fashion for such bodices lasted more than 10 years, from the early 1900s until the mid 1910s.





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