![]() ![]() In the first chapter she addresses this view of the corset head on. The definitive history of the corset is The Corset: A Cultural History by historian Valerie Steele, Director and Chief Curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. They served a purpose a purpose that sometimes involved discomfort, but no more so than some contemporary garments we choose to wear. Undergarments in general and corsets in particular are not intended to be instruments of torture. You will also find many, many inaccurate and distorted accounts of what corsets were, why women wore them, and their effects on the body. If you search “corset history” you will find 32 million hits on Google. Like many aspects of this film, the image is a distortion. ![]() Mention of this undergarment often brings to mind images of Scarlett O’Hara being tightly laced into her corset in the movie Gone With The Wind. Trustees of the British Museum.įew articles of clothing in western culture are more interesting to modern Americans than the much-maligned corset. Corsets and other vanities were popular subjects of cartoonists in the 18th and 19th centuries. ![]()
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