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Corset Dress

Corset Dress

Before 1500

There is not too much assurance on the information whether corsets were in use before 1500, as knowledge about them is untrustworthy. As per various books, it was found that Cretan women used the corset c. 2000 BC as they created idols in the shape of a corset. These idols were initially two round pots bottom to bottom with the handle featuring on the top pot being the nose on the idols and the edge line of bottom to bottom being the waist. The shape was conventional for idols and not focused on the body shape of Cretan women. The detail of the idols revealed that the old Cretan idols were used to big loincloths, and the later idols turned to a tunic of open lace and a loincloth. The corset-shaped figure of the idols was a primeval Cretan trend.

However, some virgins wore a long tight lace outfit around 15^th century but that was actually a dress and not a corset.

After 1500

Iron corset dress was popular during the Victorian Era that was made using metal. One can easily go through many of them in various museums today.

Sometimes it is appealed that these corsets were a part of daily wear of women & girls throughout Europe in the q6th and early 17th centuries. However, they are more probably meant to be orthopedic elements employed by a very few women whose posture was not taken suitable by the health and beauty standards of that period.

In later periods, the "iron corset dress" was worn by both men and women, but only on certain occasions. Both the iron and the dress prepared tend to be heavy, and the iron was padded underneath like armor. The silk of that time was highly costly but of bad quality and it did not expanse as well. It appeared astounding on the glittering metal. The iron corset was also used as a bulletproof waistcoat, as murder by a knife by someone was a general risk.

For a great majority of people, a corset mainly revolves around the concept of "Victorian corset"; however, the British Victorian era made of a longer period of modifications in terms of culture and fashion from 1837 to 1901. During that period of time, various styles of corsets were in use. The most omnipresent feature was the "horizontal waist" which was a norm between 1850 and 1899. The "Victorian corsets" for sale today are most much like the New Look corsets.