The history of women corset

Corset (fr. Corset) - the subject of mainly women's clothing in a wide belt with stitched elastic plates, tightly covering the lower part of the chest and abdomen to give the desired shape of the form (a proud posture, slender waist) and soft chest support.
Typically, one or more of the parties made lace, often on the other side do fasteners inserted or lightning.





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Corsets constructed from fabric or leather, vystrachivaya narrow strips in which the bone is sewn of whalebone and iron. The design was quite rigid, allowing much narrower waist.



In those times, corsets were one of the most fashionable clothes and necessary items. Constant wearing corsets Waist shrank internal organs, causing their displacement, it prevents the normal circulation. But since nothing could stop thirst women become more beautiful, medieval beauties risk the health and sometimes life, and continued to use the corset.



Truly beauty demands victims ...



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Between Gothic corset worn by both women and men. Made of leather and metal, it has a protective function in the military ammunition and then for a long time been a part of men's clothing, until the XVI century.



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As a separate item of clothing corset appeared in the XIV century in Burgundy, the design emphasizes the form of the breast.
Particularly, he get along at the court of Louis XV, an amateur free sexual mores and merrymaking.
The corset in the form that is known to us for museum exhibits, with frequent stitches metal plates and wooden bars, appeared in the XVI century Italy



Only in the middle of the XVII century style of the epoch "Baroque" is replaced by a new style of "Rococo", returning to an open fashion, held high the chest and narrow waist. This period - the triumph of slimming waist corset. Catherine de Medici was introduced standard waist circumference at the court - a little more 33santimetrov. At that time, the corset was a privilege only for the ladies of the highest secular circles.
In the XVIII century began to wear corsets are everywhere and constantly. In order to achieve the ideal posture, to wearing a corset taught from childhood.



Wind of the French Revolution brought a new style of "Empire", the pursuit of the ideals of antiquity, waist high position ... it would seem, the corset was dropped, but he again altered and only returned in 1810 after his pedestal by as much as two centuries.



Neglect corset was considered bad form.

Corset body shape changes depending on fashion trends, it raises the breast, it makes flat waistline is overstated, then understated, it returns to its natural position. In 1828 he invented the metal eyelets for laces, and in 1895 - busk.

XIXvek, age finest, corseted waists and billowing skirts, an age when the pregnancy was considered indecent to remember, and a woman should stay at home, when the pregnancy becomes visible. However, corset made it possible to extend the period of stay in public.



I am aware of any damage that might cause too tightly laced corset and child, and the mother? Sure. More in 1700, one of the characters of the play the famous playwright William Congreve English said his future wife that forbids her laced, tightening waist during pregnancy. But the slim waist, a symbol of beauty, was too attractive, and many women up to the fifth or sixth month so tightly laced corset, that others might not be aware of their pregnancy.

In the same month last wore a special corset for expectant mothers, with additional lacing not only back, but also on the sides and on the belly, allowing it to dissolve as required, freeing the stomach, but still keeping the upper body. These corsets were relatively comfortable, and sometimes she did not remove it even directly during childbirth.



The corset is not saved are not from the heat, not cold, not from dampness ... He saved from everyday life, it is to create an image. Mysterious female image! .. This is changing under the influence of fashion and ethical requirements, but whatever it was - closed or spicy - this image is always attracted and fascinated. The mere contemplation of pleasing to the eye, stirs the imagination.



Elegant slender figure, captivating twists bizarre lines, a wave of "softness" - alluring charm of a charming woman. This delicate treasures hidden under the tight corset basis, longed to enjoy! Intoxicating blood waiting ... awkward Putao lacing his fingers ...



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