The Corset: a perfect chilling read to curl up with this Autumn

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I couldn't understand the point of some characters' existence. She spent so much time fiddling around some unimportant characters and events that we lost sight of the main story. The corset reached its greatest length in the early 20th century. At first, the longline corset reached from the bust down to the upper thigh. There was also a style of longline corset that started under the bust, and necessitated the wearing of a brassiere, a style that was meant to complement the new silhouette. It was a boneless style, much closer to a modern girdle than the traditional corset. Wearing a Corset was brutal. Many of the ladies of those times went through many health problems due to the tight lacing of corset. Was, indigestion, heartburn, compression of the inner organs and resultant problems like cramps that beset these ladies because of corseting, worth it all? For them, yes. Vanity is a nuisance, at times. century [ edit ] Woman's corset (stays) c. 1730–1740. Silk plain weave with supplementary weft-float patterning, stiffened with baleen; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, M.63.24.5. [13]

The Corset by Laura Purcell | Waterstones

TikTok on the other hand has been a key player in the resurgence of corsets. TikTok is a place of a variety of widespread trends, including the corset trend. In the song “Hans of Holbein” by the musical SIX, a small part of the lyrics, “you bring the corset, I’ll bring the cinchers, no one wants a waist over nine inches” has seemingly gone viral with users purchasing a corset, putting it on and tightening the laces while singing the lyrics for a visible dramatic change in their waist size.https://nyamcenterforhistory.org/2015/05/29/did-corsets-harm-womens-health/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11639434/

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I devoured this book. I thought it did a good job of showing just how hard life was during that time. How huge the differences in the classes were, how people took advantage and how people were treated. Ruth and the other young women she sews with are subject to harsh conditions, horrific treatment and abuse. How about the debtor’s prison? You go there because you can't pay your debts and yet you can't make money there so how will you ever pay your debt? You don't. You die. End of story. Life is harsh, no? Extremely. This novel has an original, creepy storyline and is definitely melodramatic, playing throughout with supernatural themes. The dialogue is elegant and feels realistic and the characters are fully imagined. While the original purpose of stiffened undergarments was founded in the avoiding of creasing to costly, highly adorned outer garments, [2] the most common and well-known use of corsets is to slim the body and make it conform to a fashionable silhouette. For women, this most frequently emphasizes a curvy figure by reducing the waist and thereby exaggerating the bust and hips. After the brief lapse at the beginning of the century, corsets were revived in full force for the remainder of the 1800s. Compared to previous decades, the structure of 19 th century corsets emphasized a more natural, hourglass shape, and were more focused on shrinking the waist than previous corsets had been. This was especially damaging to women internally as was discovered towards the end of the century. Westwood's corset designs may be "one of her most important contributions to 20th-Century fashion" according to Steele. They are indeed highly prized collectors' items: her corset design printed with a detail from the 1743 François Boucher painting Daphnis and Chloe resides in the V&A. Fans of her Boucher corsets include the model Bella Hadid, and pop stars Miley Cyrus and FKA Twigs. Twigs modelled some of her extensive vintage Westwood collection for her digital zine Avantgarden.

Victorian Corset

During the Victorian era, mid to late 19th Century it was all about the hourglass figure, all focus was on creating a tiny waist. In the1840s and 1850’s tight-lacing first became popular. The corset was very different from before in several ways. The corset no longer ended at the hips, but flared out and ended several inches below the waist. The corset was exaggeratedly curvaceous rather than funnel-shaped. Spiral steel stays curved with the figure. While many corsets were still sewn by hand to accommodate the wearer’s measurement, there was also a thriving market in cheaper mass-produced corsets.