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Women Body Shapers: The Modern Day Corset
Author : Mark Etinger
The corset lives on…with the help of women body shapers. The history of corsets dates back as far as the 16th century when the garment was used by women to cinch the waist and support the breasts. The corset has transitioned through waves of varying fashions and usages throughout the centuries, but it has remained an important item in today's modern world of fashion.
In the 16th to late 17th centuries, the first corsets were called "payer of bodies," shaping the upper torso into a cone or cylindrical shape. These corsets had shoulder straps and flaps that laid beside the waist. By flattening the wearer's body, it also pushed the breasts upwards. The focus of the corset was not the smallness of the waist, but the contrast between the flatness of the front bodice with the curving tops of the breasts peering over the top of the corset.
Later in the 18th and 19th centuries, corsets were less constricting with the introduction of the high-waisted empire style that de-emphasized the natural waist. By 1800, the corset was mostly used for breast support and continued to slim the torso, but that was no longer their primary purpose.
In the 1830s, the Victorian Era made the corset a controversial fashion-staple for women. The aesthetic ideal for women's bodies was to resemble an hourglass figure by reducing the thickness of the waist, achieved by tight lacing. Victorian Era corsets were made with spiral steel stays that curved with the figure. By the late 19th century, health concerns involving everything from indigestion to hysteria were associated with tight lacing. With a cause for rational dressing, the Edwardian corset was born and was believed to be less injurious to wearers. The Edwardian corset was also know as the swan-bill corset featuring an S—bend that forced the torso forward and made the hips protrude.
In 1917, shortly after World War I began, the U.S. War Industries Board asked women to stop purchasing corsets to free up metal to be used in war materials. This discontinuation of corset sales saved almost 30,000 tons of metal, enough to make two World War I battleships.
Today, corsets are used by fashion designers all around the world and are still worn by some wearers within the general population, give or take an abundance of authenticity (some corsets are zippered up). The original purpose of the corset was the shape the body, despite how far some century wearers took it, its intended focus is still alive today, in the form of women body shapers and womens leotards made from comfortable, flexible, and durable material.
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Submitted : 2010-08-30 Word Count : 1 Popularity: 205 Times Viewed: 33
