The Corset: A Cultural History
by Valerie Steele
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1. Steel and Whalebone: Fashioning the Aristocratic Body 2. Art and Nature: Corset Controversies of the Nineteenth Century 3. Dressed to Kill: The Medical Consequences of Corsetry 4. Fashion and Fetishism: The Votaries of Tight-Lacing 5. The Satin Corset: An Erotic Iconography 6. The Hard Body: A Muscular Corset. The corset is one of the most controversial garments in fashion history. This study explores why women continued to don steel and whalebone corsets for 400 years, and why they show more finally stopped. It also discusses the cultural history of the corset, demolishing myths and revealing its significance. show lessTags
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Valeric Steele, one of the world's most respected fashion historians, explores the cultural history of the corset, demolishing myths about this notorious garment and revealing new information and perspectives on its changing significance over the centuries.
Lots of beautiful pictures, and various aspects of corsetwearing, historical and contemporary.
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Valerie Steele is chief curator and acting director, The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York. She is founder and editor of Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- The Corset: A Cultural History
- Original publication date
- 2001; 2003-02-08
- First words
- The corset is probably the most controversial garment in the entire history of fashion.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Like the corsets of old, these items slim your middle for a Scarlett O'Hara-size waistline."
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