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A corset is a garment worn to hold and shape the torso into a desired shape for aesthetic or medical purposes ( either for the duration of wearing this item, or with a more lasting effect ).
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The word corset is derived from the Old French word corps and the diminutive of body, which itself derives from corpus — Latin for body.
A shorter kind of corset, which covers the waist area ( from low on the ribs to just above the hips ), is called a waist cincher.
Sometimes a corset cover is used to protect outer clothes from the corset and to smooth the lines of the corset.
Plastic is now the most commonly used material for lightweight corsets and the majority of poor quality corsets, whereas spring or spiral steel is preferred for stronger corsets and generally the better quality corset too.
If the corset was worn loosely, it was possible to leave the lacing as adjusted and take the corset on and off using the front opening ( if the corset is worn snugly, this method will damage the busk if the lacing is not significantly loosened beforehand ).
Present day corset-wearers usually tighten the corset just enough to reduce their waists by to ; it is very difficult for a slender woman to achieve as much as, although larger women can do so more easily.
Most physicians would not say that a man who finds a woman attractive because she is dressed in high heels, lacy stockings or a corset has an abnormal fetish.
Catsuits for fetish use are often made of latex or PVC where such a catsuit is typically highly shiny, tight fitting and may be ( but is not exclusively ) worn with a corset over the top of the suit.
Madonna is dressed in a gold corset and performs with two hermaphrodite dancers on each side of the bed and concludes the song by simulating masturbation.
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Waist reduction or waist training refers to the act of wearing a corset or other constricting garment to reduce or alter the waistline.
No structural features distinguish a modern waist training corset from a corset worn as an external garment for special occasions.
In modern usage, bodice typically refers to an upper garment that has removable sleeves or no sleeves, often low-cut, worn in Europe from the 16th century to the 18th century, either over a corset or in lieu of one.
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A corset may also include garters to hold up stockings ( alternatively a separate garter belt may be worn for that ).
A specially designed corset, in which the breasts and vulva are left exposed can be worn during vanilla sex or BDSM activities.
In the past, a woman's corset was usually worn over a chemise, a sleeveless low-necked gown made of washable material ( usually cotton or linen ).
Often the belt served only to emphasize waist made small by a corset worn under the uniform, a practice which was common especially during the Crimean Wars and was often noted by soldiers from the Western front.
In stays, the corsets worn between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, the busk was intended to keep the front of the corset straight and upright.
The stiffened corset cover poked out from under the sheer evening gown that she had worn to her own debut a few weeks previously and covered her plunging neckline.
Polly related her invention to corset covers which were worn to cover the bosom when a woman wore a low corset.
This chemise or shift of the 1830s has elbow-length sleeves and is worn under a corset and petticoat s.
In addition, the term " training corset " may simply refer to a corset which is used to acclimate the body prior to wearing a full corset as an everyday undergarment, or to any corset worn by somebody undertaking training ( achieving a desired body shape ).
corset and shape
While these modern corsets and corset tops often feature lacing or boning and generally mimic a historical style of corsets, they have very little if any effect on the shape of the wearer's body.
While in Turkey, she also recorded a particularly amusing incident in which a group of Turkish women, horrified by the sight of the corset she was wearing, exclaimed that " the husbands in England were much worse than in the East, for tied up their wives in little boxes, the shape of their bodies ".
Women, as well as men, have for centuries used the corset as a mean to shape their bodies into, what they believed at the time, the perfect shape.
Developed by Edwin Izod in the late 1860s, the procedure involved placing a corset, wet with starch, on a steam heated copper torso form until it dried into shape.
The fashionable corset now had gores to individually cup the breasts, and the bodice was styled to emphasize this shape.
Although most bustle gowns covered nearly all of a woman, the shape created by the combination of a bustle and corset ( accentuating the rump, waist, and bosom ) resulted in highly idealized representations of female sexual identity, at once exaggerated and concealed by the structures of adornment.
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