corset

     

A corset is a garment worn to mol and shape the torso into a desired shape for aesthetic or medical purposes (either for the duration of wearing it, or with a more lasting effect). Both men and women are known to wear corsets, though women are more common wearers.

Trivia about corset

  • Scarlett was often laced up into one of these undergarments, & one of them is on display
  • In the 1930s & '40s, this boned & rigid garment for women gave way to the girdle
  • These one-piece undergarments were noted for tightness; today's are comfier & often metal, not whalebone
  • In Norfolk, VA. it used to be illegal for women to go out without one of these tight-fitting garments
  • Ay, caramba! Spell check changed the last name of a 16th c. conquistador into this, an old-fashioned girdle
  • In the 1800s men too achieved that hourglass shape by wearing this girdle-like undergarment
  • Maybe no one told you this whale-bone-stiffened undergarment went out of style around 1907, to women's relief

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