Sexy Corsets History: Some Interesting Facts
Corsets are lingerie meant to cinch your waist to make it smaller and push up your breasts to make them seem bigger.
Corsets have a long history in fashion, beginning with our ancestors many years ago…
The Middle Ages
At this time there was an idea that the body was sinful and underwear something rather shameful. But at the end of the Middle Ages clothes were carefully cut and shaped to the body. It was achieved by cutting cloth on the true cross or the bias of the fabric grain. In the 13th century a corset was worn, but as in later centuries it was sometimes worn as an outer garment over robes like a waistcoat is worn. Later costume began to introduce new elements (for the sake of variety and change rather).
Iron Corsets
Spanish fashions influenced Italian and English ladies in the 16th century. An iron hinged armour like corset was worn to flatten the body. The iron corsets were exceptionally uncomfortable! They could only have been worn by Elizabethan ladies. They didn`t do any form of heavy work. Their only benefit seems to be that they produced the incredibly small waisted, elongated flat chested smooth line torso…
[source: fashion-era.com]
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