It's such a misrepresentation to show women in corsets unless you show those corsets coming off!
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For example, pregnant women were forbidden to wear corsets: Frank believed tight corsets would prevent the growth of the fetus.
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Male corsets were hidden, viewed as deeply suspect by conservative 19th-century society, while simultaneously women's corsets were considered a moral requirement, a necessary layer in decent society.
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Those corsets - you feel like you can't breath sometimes.
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I have two words that says it all, male corsets.
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It's sun aversion, high collared dresses, corsets, and spread thighs.
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I like corsets, but I'd like it to be higher.
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But what we're all talking about is corsets and tits.
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Corsets, however, seem to be among her least favorite garments.
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The partygoers opened their coats to reveal corsets, fishnets, lace.
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Why do the Bennet sisters still have to wear corsets??
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Again, speaking from my personal experience, I've been wearing corsets off and on for over two decades — I believe my natural waist is smaller than it would be if I hadn't ever worn corsets.
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He disliked bras, corsets, high heels and anything that restricted movement.
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Thank God because male corsets without cowboy boots would be absurd.
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Despite health concerns, corsets seem to be quite popular among celebrities.
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There are patchwork corsets, prim shirtdresses and this sophisticated trench coat.
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The later use of separate parts in corsets, such as the steam-molded corsets of the 1860s, also moved fashion away from the willowy waists of "tubercular chic" into a curvy form believed to be more healthy.
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THIS NEWFANGLED GADGETRY REMINDS ME OF WHEN GIRDLES TOOK OVER FROM CORSETS!
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The "Truth Hurts" singer is no stranger to harnesses (and corsets, too).
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Women in corsets and pasties rather than capri pants and pleather jackets.
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Corsets could restrict breathing, cause light-headedness, break ribs, and harm internal organs.
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They learned from the books that common women didn't wear boned corsets then.
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She then compared the restraints of corsets to her career as a model.
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Victorian corsets are on view alongside celebrity photos and avant garde underfittings. vam.ac.
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Think: corsets layered over knits, color-blocked jeans, oversized coats, and lug boots.
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For special occasions, there are corsets, babydoll sets, and more priced around $40.
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And the corsets weren&apost even the weirdest part, there was also this. Interesting.
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It's very cathartic for her, stripped of her social constraints, corsets and all that.
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The peculiarities of pregnancy in art, from corsets to belly pads and hidden bumps.
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Devoted KarJenner followers know that corsets and waist trainers are nothing new for Kim.
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Her wearing pants, when everyone else was in corsets and skirts — I loved that.
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In September, the actress compared corsets to muzzles while speaking with Net-a-Porter.
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You made paintings of corsets, sculptural busts of women, the silhouettes of female statuettes.
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Those same celebs rocked the handkerchief hemlines and corsets way back in the 2000s, too.
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Think about it: chokers, mom jeans, corsets and T-shirts, knee-high boots, et al.
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And no, it was not madness from the arsenic laced wallpaper or tightly cinched corsets.
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Corsets and billowy skirts even gave way to bloomers so that women could ride comfortably.
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Cats, brooms and pointed hats would be as out of fashion nowadays as whalebone corsets.
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Corsets can be uncomfortably warm, but I feel so much prettier and feminine in them.
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Those laces reoccurred throughout the range as corsets were integrated into a variety of pieces.
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Queen Victoria ditched those suffocating corsets without blinking, much to the horror of her doctor.
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"Better Babies is the slogan heard everywhere," reads a 1909 ad for Gossard Maternity Corsets.
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Despite its seriously restrictive title, "Corsets and Codpieces" is an extremely expansive, often jolly book.
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Merely loosening the corsets would mean millions, the order of magnitude at which any solution lies.
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Read These Stories NextOur Bechdel Test Of "Feminist" FashionIt's 2017: Why Are We Still Wearing Corsets?
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Back in the day, wearing corsets was The Fashionable Thing to Do, especially among the wealthy.
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CORSETS AND CODPIECESA History of Outrageous Fashion, From Roman Times to the Modern EraBy Karen BowmanIllustrated.
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They seemed to symbolize a shift away from the corsets and pinup girls of years past.
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Waist training is about gradually reducing one's natural waist size through the consistent wearing of corsets.
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You know, I never thought I'd say this, but isn't it time to take off the corsets?
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She skinny-dips, she doesn't wear corsets or stockings, and she sasses snotty shopkeepers Pretty Woman-style.
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The silhouettes are so important—it was all about the corsets and showing off a tiny waist.
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MURDOCH: I just don&apost want to live in a world where we walk around in corsets.
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When three young women in corsets showed up wielding daggers, I figured I had the right Sims.
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"I'm moving away from the corsets and the semi-automatic riffles with the shaved head," she joked.
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In fact, many of the first bras were created in order to set women free from corsets.
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Only occasionally, when Mary was shed of her corsets and game face, could she just be herself.
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Again, maybe influenced by fashion trends; I veered away from obi belts and corsets and stiletto heels.
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As a costume design fan, I wanted to drool over the corsets and lace of historical fashion.
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Their corsets were visible under sheer scrims of chiffon set into flannel jackets, marbelized sequins monumentalizing flesh.
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This monarch, who eschewed corsets and shocked doctors with her frankness about her body, was simply powerful.
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If it wasn't for the corsets, you might even forget these kids are partying in the 1880s.
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"The Chaperone" is about a woman who abandons her literal and figurative corsets and discovers her bliss.
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She was also rather progressive on the subject of women wearing corsets and other restrictive clothing styles.
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Women (and men) have been wearing corsets for hundreds of years, but when the Kardashians do it?
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Corsets and fishnet stockings were a popular choice, with statement nose rings and elaborate face paint to complement.
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She'd be building corsets into everything from suits to jean jackets to give us a taste of royalty.
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Sex may be an effective tool but corsets were invented to remake and restrain women, not empower them.
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Yes, corsets carved waists and emphasized breasts, boasting sex, but they simultaneously concealed a frequent outcome of sex.
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Infanta elements — bell sleeves, abstracted pannier hips, corsets — met Chrysler Building curves met craft (met cumulus feather hoods).
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She needed metallic tones to create corsets on nearly nude models for an "adult convention" later that evening.
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Kink returned in force at the fall 2016 shows this year, with lace-up corsets, wet-look bodysuits and leggings, corsets, fishnet hose and pole-dancing pumps shimmying their way into the collections of Alexander Wang, Hood by Air, Prada, Balmain, Marc Jacobs and Vetements, to name but an influential few.
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"You know, I never thought I'd say this, but isn't it time to take off the corsets?" she wrote.
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All right, still to come, male corsets, golden cowboy boots, the Paris men&aposs wear show was this week.
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Kim Kardashian has been in a corsets-wearingmood all week while Khloé Kardashian has been all about the bodysuits.
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We've watched her turn socks into heels, slap corsets over T-shirts, and transform into Christina Aguilera for Halloween.
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While she used to struggle to hide her excess skin with corsets and tights — after going from 400 lbs.
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Corsets shrank waists by up to two inches; crinolines and padding made full, calf-length skirts even more voluminous.
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Leather vests, corsets and latex predominated, but there were glimpses of glitter, sparkles and a dash of rainbows, too.
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China is laughing at us, because they make corsets in China—which, by the way, they're undercutting us on.
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Perhaps previous generations of women had to physically wrestle themselves into corsets — or, adding another layer of class and race division, were laced into corsets by domestic help — but Cuppetelli's work is merely a very literal demonstration of women's continued wrestling with the corset, whether we are physically inside one or not.
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Waist TrainersWaist trainers are corsets for the gym, and the Kim Kardashian-branded model can be yours for 60 bucks.
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There were also white cotton corsets featuring what appeared to be back-supporting belts and stitched in with baggy trousers.
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I started working there, a fish out of water, performing in vintage lingerie and corsets and developing my burlesque shows.
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Few now can make the beaded corsets whose patterns and colors would tell you the life story of its wearer.
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But in 20123, they were asked to stop buying corsets; the steel inside was too valuable for the war effort.
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Waist-training is all the rage, thanks to the Kardashians, and people are wearing literal corsets to whittle their waists.
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Dior's corsets were of lighter construction, but their nickname, "waspies," underlined their goal to pinch women's waists to wasplike insignificance.
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Fashion choices like dark eye makeup, velvet, leather, corsets, and anything with bats are typical signifiers of the goth scene.
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I went looking for a fancy dress outfit with a friend and bought two corsets, one black and one purple.
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Paving the way for future queens a century later, Eltinge even launched his own line of cosmetics, corsets, and shoes.
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"Let's face it, they are the ones that got us out of the corsets, went for the suffrage," she said.
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I will bring him to Ireland, where a sort of embryonic Madame Bovary has a shop with French corsets and . . .
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Corsets and lingerie had always been an inspiration for the designer, now Madonna would put his ambition to the test.
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Though 21st century gym-goers would likely prefer to don yoga pants en lieu of corsets and floor-length dresses.
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Corsets can be worn for fun, fashion, costuming, foundation, and even medical and back support How did waist training originate?
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Kirsten Gillibrand is sure that all Democrats will vote against the new nominee just as they did last time with corsets.
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Inside the converted factory lie huge closets full of stored corsets, stockings, coats, linen shirts, and every kind of underskirt imaginable.
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Their answered included everything from too-tight corsets to the ever-popular black leather chokers to wearing athleisure in inappropriate situations.
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I know that sounds weird, but there were times when you had corsets and fashion was really kind of stuck up.
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The other sisters worked fashionable looks, with Kardashian West taking her love of over-the-shirt corsets out on the town.
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That was in part, thanks to the corsets worn under the costumes, made to make women's breasts sit up super-high.
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But all things considered, these are still corsets, designed to exaggerate the female form — and I still feel a little shook.
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After all, it was a female designer who championed removing corsets from the everyday and liberated the modern woman of today.
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While Kylie has always been a champion of waist trainers, including corsets into her daily apparel is a more recent development.
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I asked if they had corsets or undergarments for me to try on, but they said these were difficult to wear.
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Women in the nineteenth century stuffed themselves into near-suffocating corsets to achieve an hourglass figure with an unnaturally tiny waist.
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At the club, patrons will show up dressed to the nines in elaborate outfits of latex, corsets, lace, mesh, and more.
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Shop here for garter belts, corsets, and playsuits, as well as accessories like hosiery, chokers and chains, and extremely intricate whips.
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Unfortunately, the prom market can feel like it's oversaturated by bedazzled corsets and the same column gowns we've seen year after year.
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Mandatory medieval evening wear I'm going to go ahead and guess that chainmail and corsets don't make for the best rave attire.
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Anchored at the waist by elasticized corsets, the skirt and belt could be discarded to reveal the activewear beneath. Three-in-one!
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Still, Scherer's pieces look distinctly alien—like the plant equivalent of women who've trained their waists with corsets, or feet with foot binding.
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Models wore spike-heeled thigh-high latex boots, sculpted bustiers and corsets, while one cradled the unusual runway accessory of a tiny dog.
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When Russian revolutionaries executed the Romanov family a century ago, the bullets ricocheted off diamonds concealed in the corsets of the royal princesses.
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The jokes thin out (sorry) when she turns to corsets: "tight-lace liver" became in Victorian times a recognized cause of early death.
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Corsets and other wearable lingerie also made a second appearance during the fall '20 season at Eckhaus Latta, Brock Collection, and Sandy Liang.
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Yes, the recent Paris Fashion Week hoped to blur gender lines with some never before seen outfits, namely male corsets paired with cowboy boots.
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I sipped my aperol spritz, helped myself to antipasti, and mingled with the other guests, each of us free from responsibility and constricting corsets.
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"This has taken their Katrashian obsession with waist corsets to dress a sweet, innocent 4yo in a sexually provocative way!" one angry commenter posted.
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As for corsets, they have been mostly relegated in the public imagination to the realm of burlesque performances, fetish play, and all things Kardashian.
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"I love the look so much cause I love corsets and I love tiny waists and they really cinched it in there," she says.
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I bonded with all of them, but I did have a moment with Tan [France] after he stole one of my corsets from wardrobe!
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Lingerie marketing is often rooted in the concept of transformation: Corsets constrain, teddies conceal, and push-up bras fight gravity to hoist breasts skyward.
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You might associate corsets with Victorian dressing, burlesque performances, or, most recently, the Kardashian-Jenner family and their obsession with bodycon and waist trainers.
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Mango's always been a trusty spot for the latest trends, yes, but denim jackets tied into corsets and colorful crop tops over black turtlenecks?
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In the dressing room, she itches her way out of constraining corsets, pouffy skirts, and tight necks, destroying many an outfit in the process.
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In his debut for Burberry, Riccardo Tisci showcased the company's trademark trenches with corsets and gussied up beige raincoats with splendid jewels and feathers.
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Shredded denim corsets, patterned midi dresses, oversized knits, and shrunken sweater vests were paired with iconic derby oxfords from Prada and signature Chanel slingbacks.
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A tongue-in-cheek blend of stylishness and smut, it featured satin cutaway corsets, embroidered bra straps and barely there slips brazenly on display.
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He did it with Versailles-era corsets and swaying pannier-miniskirts; in denim and gold brocade; leather and pearls; gray hoodies and satin bows.
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Not to mention the hobble skirt (after having freed women from their corsets on top, he shackled them below) and his wild theme parties.
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The cast wore eyelet collars, long hemlines, lace-up boots, and basket bags in America; petticoats, corsets, lace gloves, and satin heels in France.
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A year later, Maltby wrote an article for the Times about the history of corsets, which was published with a picture of her wearing one.
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You know, when the gals thought it was cool to take some XL Hanes tees (kidding, they were probably Givenchy) and put corsets over them?
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Catwalks and Instagram feeds have recently been invaded by corsets worn as tops or over shirts, but not everyone is on board with this trend.
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But no matter how much shapewear improves the lines of the clothes, they will never be mistaken for corsets or knickers or other thrilling Victoriana.
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Corsets fell out of fashion fast during the 1910s and 1920s, being completely unsuited to the boyish silhouettes and delicate fabrics of the Jazz Age.
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Whenever I would go to parties or when I performed, I would wear corsets, ripped v-neck t-shirts, tulle skirts and very high heels.
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Easy: These steamy tales are all about breaking rigid confines, about desire's triumph over society, about corsets ripping off and bodies being freed to explore.
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It's time to dust off your boas, lace up your corsets, climb onto your swinging chairs, and travel back in time to the Moulin Rogue.
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Mr. Ingram said that despite the skimpiness of the cuts, the designers often use hidden corsets and nude materials to practically bind the bride in.
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Instead, he wore garters, heels, stockings, corsets, and pants together, experimenting early on with the feather and silk fans traditionally associated with female burlesque performers.
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"We scorn corsets and we're horrified by layers of petticoats, but actually, we haven't evolved all that much," says the exhibition's research assistant, Susanna Cordner.
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The rise of cycling dovetailed with the rational dress movement, and Davidson encouraged women to shed corsets and petticoats in favor of more practical attire.
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We're also going to get a closeup of her ostentatiously luxurious lifestyle, which evidently includes lounging around the house in sequined corsets and bathing in diamonds.
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After all, over the last few years the American Horror Story actress has pulled off crop-tops and corsets better than most women half her age.
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She sewed a neoprene mouse pad into one of her corsets for her first prototype, and now has a lineup of 13 holsters for Dene Adams.
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When they wake, Marion is overcome by the desire to get rid of all her "absurd garments", and some of them cast their restrictive corsets aside.
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There were ruffled nylon babydoll windbreakers and sweeping floor-length parkas with silk chinoiserie hoods; pink silk floral boiler suits with tightly shoe-laced corsets underneath.
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SEATTLE — Part of Jillian Boshart's life plays out in tidy, ordered lines of JavaScript computer code, and part in a flamboyant whirl of corsets and crinoline.
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Some of them are now "waist training," which involves wearing, working out and even sleeping in latterday corsets with the promise of an altered, thinner waist.
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But haute Hollywood metallic silk halter-neck tops with athletic corsets atop black tuxedo trousers captured the best way to take off: under your own steam.
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A chill-out area next to the club was packed with people smoking and chatting, wearing everything from jeans and T-shirts to wigs and corsets.
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On display are the wigs he wore to conceal his balding, a plethora of beauty products, and the various corsets he wore after he was shot.
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A host of her peers in cropped chain mail tops, distressed and bedazzled denim, zips and corsets and revisionist suiting (shorts, backward shirts, oversize jackets) followed.
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I recommend starting by finding a reputable corset maker, ideally one where you can try on corsets to find out if it's even something you'll enjoy.
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Also new was the idea that women could — and should — take control of their own body shape, rather than rely on corsets to do it for them.
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Wearing a variety of white and pastel looks that included ten custom-made corsets, Kardashian West showed off her hard work in the gym through the shoot.
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Speaking of Claire, she's now a 50-year-old Jackie O. look-alike who has swapped her corsets and tartan prints for Burberry and Twiggy-style shadow.
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Fallen, the debut album from Arkansas nu-metal band Evanescence, the ones who gave us "Bring Me Back to Life" and corsets and chin beards: any good?
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For her, women's lives and bodies were meant to fulfill ambitions, and they couldn't be expected to wear corsets and body-shackling garments to do that in.
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"Although you see many corsets in the show with seemingly tiny waists, maybe those women didn't always wear a corset like that," exhibition curator Edwina Ehrman said.
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In the same interview, the actress revealed that she didn't actually wear corsets during filming, instead talking the production into letting her pretend she was wearing one.
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These freakish personages, cinched by corsets or stretched out like yogis, cannot escape today's always-on performativity; even in your most unsound form, you must still work.
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But the shredded knits and rough leather corsets, draped silk cargo pants and gossamer shifts never found an audience, and, in 2013, the company was shut down.
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Tables were laden with items for sale: intricate corsets, leather gloves, beaded jewelry, sequined pasties, gel breastplates and elaborate bouffant-style wigs in every shade of pastel.
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Their similarly playful aesthetic — complete with beaded corsets, body glitter, neon hair, and loud, clashing patterns — provide a carefree vibe and creative approach to their carefully crafted music.
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From skintight latex dresses and nude-colored unitards to rib-crushing corsets and fully sheer bodysuits, there's no trend too risky or complicated for this group of ladies.
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Think back to summer, when lingerie-inspired bustiers suddenly switched their functional roles, and we started layering corsets over our shirts for a modest dose of sex appeal.
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On Monday night, stunning women of color with tattoos and piercings strutted through the hallowed halls of Manhattan's Church of Ascension adorned in Renaissance-inspired ruffles and corsets.
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Now we need to just see Dolores Abernathy (Evan Rachel Wood) doing some quick hand work with her own firearms instead of being laced up in uncomfortable corsets.
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Most of us would consider corsets to be a turn of the century relic, something more befitting a Game of Thrones character than your average modern-day woman.
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Shortly after, Kim wore two corsets in the same day while on vacation in Cuba — a white one for day and a black one post-sunset, of course.
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" Finn's drag look is a unique one: he plays with porcelain makeup, coiffed hair and corsets, and "things that aren't necessarily gendered, like kilts, berets or a ruff.
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But I spent the longest time in the small antechamber before this room, which featured the many back braces, plaster corsets, and prostheses Kahlo wore throughout her life.
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Until the next thing you know, it's September and we are all sitting by the side of a runway looking at corsets and leather and knee-high boots.
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And then expressed it all in yards of dropped-waist high-low silk faille, velvet, corsets dripping chains (this is where Scarlett Johansson's Oscar dress originated) and feathers.
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It's a challenge not to wince, as she trembles nonstop with internal conflicts and has a hard time squeezing into the corsets of songs that bear her name.
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You could see it in Junya Watanabe's meticulous effort to consider the trench: strapless trench gowns and trench corsets; trench schoolgirls skirts and trench gilets and trench redingotes.
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Some signs of liberation were flaunted proudly: Corsets were out, hemlines were raised, makeup was applied in public, and hair was cut above the shoulder in a bob.
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Bowheads feed by filtering the ocean with long vertical plates in their mouths called baleen, a substance once highly prized for making everything from horse whips to corsets.
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This novel's cast grows epic, but McCracken is always most impressive when she works small, when she is describing movie kisses or corsets or simply loneliness and longing.
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His elements were tweed and organza, the trench and the Fair Isle knit, corsets and sheaths, the nylon stocking — all of them twisted and taken out of context.
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So are her jewelry and her spine-straightening corsets — Kahlo was in a traffic accident as a teenager, and this show puts a particular focus on her disability.
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Her 2015 exhibition Behind the Curtain at David Zwirner included paintings of busts, corsets, stays, and statuettes: objects for forming the body, or of the body, already formed.
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Directed by Jason Rourke, Mary, Queen of Scots promises a healthy dose of sword fighting on horses, fancy corsets, male fragility, and a riveting battle between two powerful women.
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This is the same era when some magazines in Victorian England were publishing firsts-person letters about tight-laced corsets and flagellation and forced crossdressing and things like that.
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The 38-year-old keeps his extensive collection of expensive wigs, tights, corsets, and high heels here—everything he needs to perform as Ms. Face in nightclubs across Zurich.
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In it, the girls hear a voice and feel compelled to remove their corsets, tossing the garments into the air, where they hang as if suspended on a wire.
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At work, she refrains from wearing her typical petticoats, corsets, and swirly eyeliner, mostly because she finds it exhausting to spend so much time getting ready in the morning.
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" The President followed along in a Haggadah, as we named all the plagues, including locusts, frogs, and, as Aunt Tessie said, "whalebone corsets and my husband Walt's obstructed bowel.
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By the 1850s, corsets came with a metal busk down the center, complete with hook and eye closures, which allowed the wearer to put it on on her own.
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" (A Meatpacking District rooftop, perhaps an attempt to avoid the racially-tinged "no baggy jeans," which triggered a civil rights lawsuit for its East Village counterpart.) "Corsets and schoolgirl skirts.
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Suddenly, corsets were back in magazines too: On Emma Watson's Elle UK cover, on Maria Borges for Grazia Australia, on Natalia Vodianova for Porter, and on Madonna for Vogue Italia.
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The ever-bold designer Abley had tongues wagging with his barely there looks, while Sibling made waves for the house's burly men sporting rib-hugging corsets and manhood-strapping jockstraps.
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LONDON - From early designs of 18th century corsets to contemporary bras, an exhibition looking at the history and evolution of underwear opens at London's Victoria and Albert Museum this week.
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Throughout history, a combination of legislation, local regulation and social pressure has influenced the way women have dressed — corsets and décolleté, hoop skirts and bustles, the controversial advent of pants.
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Beneath the corsets and petticoats lies a turn-of-the-20th- century real life tale of feminism and gender politics that is just as relevant today, the film makers say.
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Anyone who has ever been to an old-school Lower East Side garment shop will appreciate "Miss Adele Amidst the Corsets," a funny and unflinching portrait of put-upon souls.
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From his grandmother, Gaultier also was introduced to corsets — something that would come in handy when he would start to design some of Madonna's most iconic looks in the 1990s.
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From bustier corsets layered over button-downs to LBDs paired with chunky sneakers, the crew at Thursday night's event in Washington D.C. wasn't afraid to take some serious sartorial risks.
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A constant consideration during the design process, she added, was physical comfort; any hard or crispy fabric must have a soft lining; corsets or tailoring should never feel too constraining.
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Women in corsets and skirts, and men in tights and tunics (called serfs) pour every guest a metal bowl of tomato soup that tastes like Campbell's slightly more sophisticated sister.
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Davidson's best-known inflatables, called "Lulus," are balloons squeezed and constricted by corsets, shaped into bifurcated bulbous masses by a taut rope, referencing either or both ends of the female torso.
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But in dressmaking it functioned as a near absence, a slightly heavier seam which allowed clothing tighter than any since the days of corsets to be got into—and out of.
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In the Victorian era, the British referred to it as a "nervous-weakness" or "faintness" – never mind that women were expected to wear tight corsets that made it hard to breathe.
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With stylish corsets, frayed jackets, and a whole lot of prints, so many pieces look so expensive, you'd be able to fool anyone into thinking they cost more than your rent.
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But while the Delphos might have freed a woman from whalebone corsets, those long hems, which puddled at her feet like the root flares of a tree, surely restricted her movement.
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British billionaire Mike Ashley and the owner of Sports Direct International Plc bought an interest in luxury lingerie brand Agent Provocateur after the maker of cuffs and corsets slipped into administration.
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A Barbie doll's waist comes to a near V; so does Action Man's, an ideal propagated in Ancient Greece and revived in the 19th century (when men wore their own corsets).
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Decorum is observed — grace is said before meals; corsets are tightened; French verbs are conjugated; everyone is called "miss" — but under the surface all kinds of strong emotions seethe and simmer.
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" Still, younger employees have started conversations about feminism in the office, said Ms. Fairhurst, questioning comparisons to corsets and whether the company is "conforming and trying to create an ideal shape.
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Torsos fitted with leather corsets litter the room, while hidden at the back is a vintage 1950s Singer sewing machine, bought at North London's Chapel Market for 60 pounds in 1988.
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He didn't just recycle his themes, he upcycled his fabrics, melding silk ties into striped skirts, leather bombers into a bubble mini, and false-fronting jackets onto the top of corsets.
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"By day I was making diamond tiaras, by night I was making skeleton corsets," said Mr. Leane, adding that he was nicknamed the "Jekyll and Hyde of jewelry" by his peers.
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Her signature body-conscious dresses were extrapolated into boneless corsets sliced at the stomach and under the breasts and worn with skirts buckled asymmetrically and slung low at the hips; Crombie coats given a Carnaby Street spin with exaggerated stripes and big mother-of-pearl buttons; and spaghetti-strap plaid slips inset with a ribbed knit from ribs to thighs where they bubbled into a rounded skirt (bubble skirts and corsets, by the way, being something of a trend).
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There were at least a dozen glittering Coachella-gone-Baroque flower crowns in the room, some flounces and some trains, hats with veils, and colorful fur stoles, not to mention bejewelled corsets.
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About fifteen people sit around plastic tables in the warehouse's gravel parking lot, making small talk while staring at their phones, the blue electronic glow reflecting off pleather corsets and platform boots.
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There are corsets on which she depicted the hammer and sickle, and an elaborate leg prosthesis, which she fashioned with a red leather wedge boot and an appliqué of a Chinese dragon.
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In the 20th century, historical fiction acquired its dreaded "genre fiction" status, with its connotations of corsets, unfurling Nazi flags, the fetid smell of Victorian London — the dinner theater of literature, essentially.
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"There is evening and there are corsets in the Oscar show, but the shape is so basic and simple that she will not come across as someone who is constipated," Garcia adds.
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The clothes, as well as the corsets and jewelry, were discovered in 2003 in a bathroom at the Casa Azul, where she was born, worked, suffered and died in 1954, age 47.
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Today's suit took 20 hours to make and is one of eight catsuits, 15 masks, and three corsets that Die Gummipuppe owns, and it costs of somewhere between €5,000 [$5,827] and €6,000 [$6,993].
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He survived, undergoing intense surgery, which left deep scars across his chest and stomach, forcing him to wear corsets for the rest of his life (a colorful array of them is on display).
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But even with that botanical theme, applied to a botanical substance, Scherer's pieces look distinctly alien—like the plant equivalent of women who've trained their waists with corsets, or feet with foot binding.
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The $89 product uses supportive structures inside the seams of the garment, similar to the flexible boning used in old-school corsets, and encases those structures in a soft channel of protective fabric.
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The first shot lingers on girls lazily tightening each other's corsets; there is a sense that these girls are complicit in their own bindings, but that they also don't take them too seriously.
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Ms. Rubin writes: Throughout history, a combination of legislation, local regulation and social pressure has influenced the way women have dressed — corsets and décolleté, hoop skirts and bustles, the controversial advent of pants.
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Dolphin pedestal shoes aside, the collection featured pastel shades and a distinct pre-French revolution era vibe with pannier skirts, peplum jackets, corsets, taffeta bloomers, and towering beehive up-dos decorated with bows.
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A childless proto-feminist who strongly supported the suffragist movement, she preferred knickerbockers and tunics for her treks when most Edwardian-age women wore corsets and ground-grazing dresses in the great outdoors.
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" When you read a lot of diet books, said Louise Foxcroft, author of Calories and Corsets: A History of Dieting Over 2,000 Years, a clear pattern emerges: "You need to be a doctor.
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Trussed in corsets, jawbone-high collars and calicos that had seen better days, they have little enough to work with, their attempts at coquetry further constrained by their rigid mores of the day.
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There has been, of course, a long history of body modification through dress — corsets have pulled the figure in to control the waist, and crinolines, panniers and bustles exaggerate and extend the body.
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Get to the theatre early, so you can see the actors begin to appear, in their corsets and codpieces, on Derek McLane's appropriately maximalist set, which gives priority to the film's lush reds.
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Capes and robes, jerkins and tabards, skirts and kilts, chemises and corsets, dresses and gowns, in fabulously opulent textiles like chenille, velvet, satin and silk, are all crammed in the period clothing rack.
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The earliest proponent of this trend was sister Kim, who has been wearing corsets outside of her clothes for nearly a decade, so it's no surprise 18-year-old Kylie has finally caught on.
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In fact, it's a rare bunch of ladies who can successfully make flesh-tone unitards, corsets, and all sheer everything a style sensation that young women all over the world actually want to imitate.
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Sara reminds us female rage is nothing new and was burning bright back in the 1890s, when women weren't allowed to vote, but definitely were forced to wear body-marking corsets on the daily.
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As we've pointed out before, when Kim finds a tried and true formula, be that spandex and fur, sweatpants and corsets, or a spartan wardrobe of LWDs (little white dresses), she sticks to it.
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And if you are worried about cellulite, try a corset and thigh high stay-up stockings with your knickers; the shape from corsets creates that wonderful Marilyn Monroe body with great lift for breasts.
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"The Georgians actually didn't like getting their clothes off that much, and when you think about it, those corsets — wow — it's quite a production getting in and out of them, I'd imagine," Newman joked.
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She returns repeatedly to 18th- and 19th-century European designs and fabrics, as evidenced by her wonderful use of tartans and repeated evocations of bustles, corsets and widow's weeds, sometimes carried to startling extremes.
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That's something Facebook could consider in the future, since waist trainers aren't exactly a diet or surgery product, but they function like modern corsets, make "miraculous claims," and certainly promote an unhealthy body image.
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It's a story people don't want to let go of because it's so evocative, and in a short space sums up a whole world of trans-Atlantic travel, shuffleboard, women in corsets, Champagne bubbles.
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As Chelsea G. Summers reported for Racked, the Rational Dress Society, which was founded in 1891 with the aim to ditch corsets and get women into more movement-friendly clothing, was all about pockets.
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Each presentation features five color stories — pink, green, white, nude, and purple (with variations on the nude-hued looks between presentations) — featuring sweatpants with corsets, hoodies with pearls, lace do-rags, and Puma-branded fans.
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It's highly unlikely it will become an essential component of a woman's wardrobe as it was, say, in 1892, when the dress reformer Helen Gilbert Ecob claimed that American women bought 60,000,000 corsets per year.
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Women of the leisure class wore constricting corsets that did not permit a great deal of movement, let alone strenuous labor; their male counterparts often carried gratuitous canes that suggested a physical inability to work.
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She may well be damned to a life of ribbons and corsets, but by God she will use the only weapons at her disposal, a pair of flashing eyes and a boyish yet feminine physique.
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Style cues: Despite its reliance on 19th century fashion flourishes like bowler hats, corsets and Victorian-era military tunics, steampunk's gaslight chic pushed far beyond Sherlock Holmes into fantastical "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" territory.
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Founded in 1891, the Rational Dress Society called for women to dress for health, ditching corsets in favor of boneless stays and bloomers, wearing loose trousers, and adopting clothing that allowed for movement, especially bicycling.
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The film has an all-female cast headed up by Adele Haenel and Noemie Merlant, who told a news conference on Monday that behind the corsets and the candlelight, the film has a particular resonance today.
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These women were able to literally cast off these constrictive garments—the petticoats, the corsets, the things that made it hard to move and hard to breathe—and donned trousers and shirts and sailed the seas.
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Or the garden-mulch-like combinations of Woodstock days, when free love ripped lettuce-cup and Jell-O-mold corsets asunder and spinach danced corybantically with sunflower seeds and bean sprouts beneath the sign of Aquarius.
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But Kahlo did not conceal her pain, revealing her casts and leather braces with metal buckles in her work and turning her plaster corsets into art with elaborate designs of flowers, even a hammer and sickle.
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Through its robust mail-order business — some catalogs were more than 500 pages — Sears shipped groceries, rifles, corsets, cream separators, davenports, stoves and entire prefab houses to some of the most remote regions of the country.
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She's even made distinctive in costume: While the other sisters (Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, and Eliza Scanlen) wear corsets, Jo does not, giving her more room to slouch and stride, to run and to man-spread.
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Doctors blamed the epidemic on sour breastmilk, tight corsets, bad air; it took a while before they grudgingly bought into the germ theory of disease and started to wash their hands between patients and after autopsies.
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The long skirts covered her wasted right leg, which was eventually amputated, while the loose blouses also gave breathing room to the corsets and braces she wore to sustain her spine after nearly two dozen operations.
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Fashion brand Alexander McQueen held a dramatic evening show inspired by surreal symbols and nature, with models wearing embellished leather corsets, oversized coats and floor-length sheer dresses decorated with butterfly motifs, feathers, flowers and heavy chains.
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Kahlo, who was in and out of hospital after nearly being killed in a bus accident at 18, hand-painted her medical corsets and crafted a prosthetic leg with a rich red leather boot on the end.
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One project my work is said to have inspired is the meat dress Lady Gaga wore in 2010 and 2012, which was similar to the meat corsets and meat dresses that I made in 2005 and 2009.
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Gaga's denim cutoffs and leather corsets lack any symbolic relation to the narrative beyond contextualizing her as an abused victim of rural American masculinity, glorifying rabid machismo and taking cues from Quentin Tarantino's road-rage thriller Death Proof.
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Phillipe and David Blond designed a historic collection bringing the unpopular Disney villains — Cruella de Vil, the Evil Queen, Maleficent, and Ursula — to life, from the bedazzled corsets right down to the detailed manicures on the models' fingertips.
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Opening with dancers dressed as bears wearing conical bras - the young Gaultier first created the look on his childhood teddy - the show features plenty of his staple corsets, skin-tight outfits and outlandish as well as provocative pieces.
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From corsets, caged crinolines and whalebone stays to bras, briefs and padded boxer shorts, more than 250 objects, along with film images, packaging and advertisements, depict the history of underwear from the mid-18th century to the present.
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She had arrived in New York City in 2000 from Saratoga Springs in upstate New York with a third-grade education, barely out of her teens, and took a job selling corsets at a department store in Brooklyn.
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Doctors at the time could scarcely leave sanctimony at the door to perform pelvic exams — "it was too indelicate, in its assumption that a doctor would perform a physical examination," writes Flanders — though plenty did recommend maternity corsets.
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As Susan Faludi explained in Backlash, women's fashion in the '80s emphasized girlish details like frills and ruffles and body-restricting items like corsets as a response to the rise of suiting and androgynous element of '70s trends.
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These whales swim close to shore, and their fat content is so high that they would float long after death while whalers stripped their baleen for buggy whips and corsets and their blubber for lamp oil and soap.
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This time around the lightning rod is Kim Kardashian West's latest venture, announced on Tuesday: a line of "solutionwear," itself a creative take on the more typical "shapewear," which used to be called girdles, and before that corsets.
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What makes Undressed so unique is how it explores the trajectory of the undergarment industry; how it eventually infiltrated not just nightgowns and pajamas, but also couture, when petticoats became skirts, corsets became tops, and slips became slip dresses.
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"When Victorian women played tennis in the 1880s and 1890s, they were wearing their street clothes, which included heavy undergarments like corsets, bustles, and petticoats, and voluminous skirts that grazed the ground," fashion historian Keren Ben-Horin told Allure.
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Mel C says she loves being costume inspiration, by the way — because underneath the glitter bodysuits and corsets was a case for authentic personal style, and proof that there wasn't merely one way for a strong woman to dress.
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When fashion experienced a major silhouette reform in the early 20th century (starting from the pioneering corset-free designers like Paul Poiret and Gabrielle Chanel), women didn't just push corsets to the backs of their closets — they condemned them.
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According to the doc -- obtained by TMZ -- Ivanka Trump Marks LLC wants to start using the name on tights, socks, stockings, leggings, lingerie, underwear, bras, panties, shorts, briefs, shapewear, camisoles, tank tops, corsets, chemise, hosiery, undergarments, teddies and sleepwear.
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And many of the most progressive and enlightened underwear designers of the 19th century were women, harnessing new technologies and materials in the design of corsets and bustiers to allow women greater ease of movement and less physical strain.
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Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel founded her namesake fashion house in 2000, and today she's widely credited with liberating women from their corsets by introducing jersey fabrics into her dresses, giving them an easier, more comfortable way of moving through the world.
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Instead, the film, which stars Lily James, Matt Smith, Lena Headey, and other acclaimed British actors, is a gleeful romp through the world as Austen saw it, a realm of heaving corsets, witty repartee, and verdant meadows glistening in the rain.
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Brands like Daisy are proffering Southern belle corsets in baby blue ginghams and broderie anglaise, while Adam Selman and Mathew Adams Dolan have gone down the ranch-girl road with pearl-embellished Western jackets and off-the-shoulder denim shirts.
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But, much like the end of corsets and foundation garments means that women are now expected to diet and exercise themselves into perma-thinness, so, too, does the current fashion for ultra-stretchy, "comfy" jeans favor a younger, more-toned body.
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The star who is known for wearing corsets over clothing, underwear as outerwear and bringing lampshading to the forefront of street style, has just one-upped herself with a DIY bikini look we're bound to still be talking next summer. Mrs.
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"Nowadays, we may not be not putting on our white gloves, heavy corsets to sip some tea at 4pm, but the tradition (with some minor modern improvements) still remains very relevant – especially when the late afternoon lethargy sinks in," she wrote.
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And while athleisure shows no signs of slowing down (to wit: Beyoncé's much-hyped Ivy Park range which just came out this week) performance-wear is nothing new, as evidenced by specially made corsets for female cyclists included in the exhibit.
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Singers rehearsed onstage, scene painters touched up backdrops and performers offstage squeezed into corsets and uniforms for a dress rehearsal of "The Yeomen of the Guard" inside a 19833-seat theater under a church on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
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In any case, Ms. Versace called her collection The Clans of Versace, stacked her runway with old friends (Natalia Vodianova, Anja Rubik, Gigi Hadid), and sent out a tartan extravaganza of primary colors and clashing prints, corsets, cling and collegiate punk.
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The missing pants, meanwhile, had been blown up and sliced open, migrated into strapless gowns belted beneath the breast and disgorging silk linings, worn over flesh-colored corsets, oft exploding out into trains and bustles, even wings, at the back.
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The Crowd The path to the dance floor served as a de facto runway, with barrel-chested men lumbering past in corsets, drag queens parting crowds in waist-grazing wigs and guests trading air kisses in all manner of lacy underthings.
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While it clearly celebrates a more shapely figure than the one that has been in fashion until 10 years ago, it almost seems to imply that women might want to wear external corsets that will make them look like Kim Kardashian.
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Britain had voted for "the freedom to bust out of the corsets of EU regulation and rules" he said, and any softening of the final deal - such as continued membership of the single market and customs union - would be unwelcome.
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Her idea of freedom from restraints instead came in the shape of her clothes (no corsets; loose, straight lines on her shift dresses; flat, soft leather shoes) and the feeling (the breeze of jersey skimming the skin; bare arms under the sun).
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She's the reason we can now see stars ranging from Katy Perry to Chrissy Metz rocking latex dresses, not to mention all those lace-up corsets that can suddenly be spotted strapped over the T-shirts of Emily Ratajkowski and Ashley Graham.
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They are definitely taking some style cues from the House of Tudor with the shape of the corsets (flat on top with the point on the bottom), the ruffled collar, as well as the rounded, caged shoulders on top of the tighter sleeves.
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Most recently, the reality star caused controversy when she wore a sheer black dress with the Virgin Mary's face across the chest, sported a plastic garbage bag-like full body weight loss suit and of course, flaunted her figure while clad in corsets.
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The fashion of the mid-to-late nineteenth century was, in way, more forgiving to full-figured women because the lines of the garments emphasizes large chests and rear ends while the waist was tightly cinched in with the aid of corsets.
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They maintain a well-stocked undergarment trove in their studios to find the most complementary pieces: slips, thongs, high-waist tummy-tucking boy shorts, full bodysuits, corsets, waist-cinchers, and strapless bra variations from brands like Spanx, Commando, Wolford, Cosabella, and Maidenform.
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PARIS — It is a myth dearly beloved of the contemporary fashion industry that World War I was when everything changed (at least when it came to clothes): Women cast off their corsets, flocked to factories and found a new kind of freedom.
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But the best part about all of this isn't how vast the selection and sizing is — it's how affordable the items are: Bras are priced from $29 to $59, underwear from $14.50 to $29, and corsets, rompers, jumpsuits, and robes from $69 to $99.
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But these passages do run through all the things that would distress a self-willed 21st-century young woman thrust into the past, including corsets, reflexive racism, and expectations of demure passivity, and they should make a modern reader grind her teeth in sympathetic frustration.
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Although the accessory reminds of corsets that literally sculpted bodies into forms considered beautiful for being dainty, it also suggests that plus-size women could still fit in with the heralded trends of the time even if their physiques differed from the cultural ideal.
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In the subsequent pages of her slim book, illustrated with fashion plates and examples of corsets and dresses that emphasized emaciated collar bones and encouraged a stooped posture, Day explores the evolution of the scientific understanding of tuberculosis, along with its influence on beauty.
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Some of the pieces (especially the chokers and the corsets!) have already sold out, but you can still try your luck at one of the select & Other Stories stores carrying the collaboration, if you happen to be in proximity to one of these locations.
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Arranged thematically across a number of sections — Fashion, Health and Hygiene; Volume; Performance Underwear and Support: Bras and Girdles — the exhibition shows us 19th century corsets next to 21st century waist trainers, bustles next to butt lifts, and bust extenders next to push-up bras.
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In its use of ephemera and heavy-handed reliance on biography, however, the exhibition builds an altar to her formidable cult of personality, one rife with contact relics, such as the multitude of hand-painted plaster corsets that once propped up the artist's shattered spine.
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Nine months in preparation, the celebration is a procession of effigies of giants and includes a broom dance in the central market to chase away the ghosts of winter, as well as a parade of young men dressed as women with corsets and prams.
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This premise serves as the central plot conceit, ostensibly for the purpose of allowing Carmilla to make peace with her past but really so that The Carmilla Movie can put its heroines in corsets and stage elaborate Victorian set pieces — think less Dracula, more DeviantArt photo shoot.
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The campaign images, shot by rising photographer Chloé Horseman, emphasize glitz and glamour with women dressed in sparkly, sequin tops, black fishnets, pink corsets, and silky robes, all while playing with poker chips, a colorful deck of cards, and of course, throwing gold confetti in the air.
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For all of the tweaking of its image, Ms. Taylor insists that the company is not about to abandon its legacy customer — the woman, or man, who has long doted on the Frederick's '50s-inspired, curve-enhancing corsets, frilly skivvies and nipple-freeing cone-shaped bras.
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The Romanov women had sewn precious jewels into their clothing for safe-keeping in case they managed to escape, and the diamond necklaces and ruby bracelets turned their corsets into armor that bullets bounced off until the soldiers closed in to finish them off with bayonets and rifle butts.
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But the series explores, with warmth and originality, the messy gulf between the era when Abby came out—as an overall-wearing romantic in a frat-boy world, drinking in lesbian bars full of folksingers—and Chris's community of cheerful poly hipsters in Spock ears, corsets, and throuples.
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"The whole business of getting ready and into that huge suit and then to the corsets and then to the dress and then having got your wig on and everything else, it conditions entirely the way you walk, the way you sit," Dench, 82, told Entertainment Weekly about getting into character.
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They seemed to want women to be asexual, when the point of his crusade was to celebrate their wonderful differences: as displayed by those Bunny Girls who staffed his clubs and casinos, so cute in those black-satin corsets that made their breasts bigger, those big ears and fluffy tails.
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But the alarm in my head continued to ring — not just because corsets are back in a big way, but because I, surprisingly, love the way they look, especially in the fresh and often weird way they're styled, wrapping and shaping our waists in a way I never thought we could.
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I was twenty-five years old, in graduate school for creative writing, and had just quit my job as a professional dominatrix, where my shifts consisted of dressing up in corsets, fishnets, stilettos, and the occasional nurse costume to enact the fetishized scenarios of my clients, who were mostly stockbrokers.
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For example, the lengths of kimono sleeves have varied, as has the width of the arm openings inside the draped pieces of fabric shaping those sleeves, but such changes have been relatively subtle compared to the differences between, say, 21989th-century hunting skirts and hot pants, or Victorian corsets and the Wonderbra.
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There were tailored wool jackets cut into corsets and down off the shoulder (the better to expose the cotton tank top beneath), with sleeves curved into bells and stretched unnaturally long, atop matching tailored trousers lopped into shorts with a peplum on top, or sheer shirred skirts left trailing on the ground.
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The garment has, in hindsight, generally been assumed to be a symbol of a patriarchal society — exacerbated, perhaps, by the fact that in 219, Louis XIV incorporated a guild of female dressmakers to make all clothes for women, except for riding habits and corsets, which were to be made only by men.
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Those more rebellious in spirit cast off their corsets (a mannequin in the show features this new, liberating uniform: a free-flowing smock); rallied for labor rights, racial equality and peace; spoke about the need for birth control (a topic so taboo that the mere mention of it could lead to arrest).
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Leather corsets, harnesses, fishnets and thigh-high boots, each part of a sex worker's arsenal, may seem familiar, even trite, to anyone who has watched a strip show or, for that matter, viewed similar items parading along a fashion runway, where they have asserted their status as part of a kinky perma-trend.
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This is not exactly an exhibition of Kahlo's art — it contains just 11 paintings, from compelling self-portraits to ghastly New Age kitsch — but an evocation of an artistic life through her elegant Oaxacan blouses and skirts, not to mention the corsets and spinal braces she wore after a crippling traffic accident.
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This is not exactly an exhibition of Kahlo's art — it contains just 20 paintings, from compelling self-portraits to ghastly New Age kitsch — but an evocation of an artistic life through her elegant Oaxacan blouses and skirts, not to mention the corsets and spinal braces she wore after a crippling traffic accident.
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This is not exactly an exhibition of Kahlo's art — it contains just 21 paintings, from compelling self-portraits to ghastly New Age kitsch — but an evocation of an artistic life through her elegant Oaxacan blouses and skirts, not to mention the corsets and spinal braces she wore after a crippling traffic accident.
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I may heave a sigh of relief that is only possible because I'm no longer socially obligated to wear a garment that prevents me from drawing air, but letting go of the need for being recognized as beautiful according to ideals literally defined by the history of corsets is much harder to let go.
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Read more: This model-turned-actress in 'Suicide Squad' is taking Hollywood by stormDespite concerns that corsets and other waist-training devices might cause bruising, nausea, and fainting, celebrities have long favored the garmentKylie Jenner, for example, wore a corset-style dress in August, while Kim Kardashian West wore a golden corset in February.
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Back in the 19th century, satire had it that husbands were frequently called upon to lace their wives into their corsets: on the one hand because the strength required exceeded that of a ladies' maid, but also so that men could see if the laces had been untied and refastened incorrectly by a lover.
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There were pencil skirts galore this time around, too — ruched tight at the thigh or flyaway at the hem, flashing just a bit of lingerie lace, like a promise, at the knee — under strong-shouldered faux crocodile suit jackets, all worn with metal spike heels, all often caught at the waist by tough leather corsets.
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And the connection was true of Proenza Schouler, where the designers Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez cross-fertilized their past signatures (leather halters, peekaboo slicing, asymmetry, collage) with a certain French classicism, so that the basics of old couture — corsets and smoking jackets and intricate handwork — were knocked off their pedestals into the mosh pit.
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Its oversized, menswear-inspired trousers contrasted with crop tops and flirty dresses are just the type of pieces we want to wear all spring and summer, but we could have bet that the fitted corsets would be the real star of the launch — and Bella, who was basically born wearing a crop top, jumped right on board.
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The capsule collection, which consists of 14 repurposed denim items, including jeans, skirts, jackets, and jeans corsets, is a partnership with Bengt Thornefors and Christoffer Svensson, founders of the Swedish bed linen and interior brand Magniberg, who are actually both designers who specialize in denim (collectively, they've worked for Acne Studios, Givenchy, and Saint Laurent — no big deal).
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He has designed for film, stage, runway and retail; hosted a hit television show; released a dance album; introduced best-selling fragrances; and helped shape the visual identities of numerous pop stars — most notably Madonna, for whom he designed the cone bra and corsets she and her dancers wore on her "Blond Ambition" tour in 254.
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In the 1980s, when the radical policies of the '70s were replaced by Reaganomics and the conservatism of Margaret Thatcher in the U.K., we got Christian Lacroix's archaic follies of crinolines and corsets, and the anarchic vibrancy of a nightclub scene that gave birth to Leigh Bowery in London and, later, to New York's club kids.
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Also one excruciating misstep: Vera Wang, returning to the runway after two years with a moody mishmash of lingerie layers (dangling garter belts, sheer corsets, camisoles, frilled tap pants), men's wear herringbones and wool and misty bordello romance, threw in shoes so acutely angled and vertiginous that her models' knees shook with the effort to remain upright.
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But that's been changing—some feminine leathermen have been rising through the competition ranks, intent on shifting the idea of what a "leatherman" can be; in the lobby at MAL I saw guys in jockstraps and platform stilettos and corsets—but before attending MAL, I had never seen men of color as part of the community en masse.
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Often likened to Coco Chanel, the designer who liberated women from corsets in the flapper 1920s, the free-spirited Ms. Rykiel (pronounced ree-KYEL) made fashions for women who, like herself, were proud of their pregnancies, sophisticated about sex and too busy to fuss over the latest designer fads — women who wanted to look smart, but needed to get on with their lives.
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In the Bible, it is said that Adam and Eve wandered the garden naked, but the Savage X Fenty gyals were adorned even more sensuously: swathed in full-body durags of sheer silk and jersey, body glitter-ed to the max (no doubt in thanks to Fenty Body Lava!), wearing silk stocking boots and everything from leopard print teddys to cupless corsets.
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" Of his debut collection in September 2003, Cathy Horyn said that Costa "accomplished two essential things at Calvin Klein: he gave more credence to the trouser suit in women's lives than to the giddy ruffle — a story of the 2004 spring collections — and he brought forward the notion that freedom in dress begins with female underpinnings, as Chanel knew when she popped women out of their corsets.
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The conflict spurs Diana to follow Steve into the world of man, and although it's a shame to leave Themyscira behind, it's no less compelling to watch Diana try and navigate our world (or at least a version of it, circa World War I). Wonder Woman has plenty of fun with Diana's fish-out-of-water situation, and Gadot's reactions are priceless as Diana learns about corsets, department stores, and women's suffrage.
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As Sewell, who examines the commercial, historical, and social aspects of fashion in the courses she teaches at the University of Arizona in Phoenix, told me in a recent e-mail interview, the high-quality corsets and other "unmentionables" the women in Goldman's pictures lounge around in, squeeze themselves into, or languidly peel off were not only parts of their work uniforms but could even be seen as self-esteem-boosting job perks.
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Not for the squeamish, the cases in the Museum Vrolik (Free admission, donations accepted) at the University of Amsterdam's Academic Medical Centre contain skeletons of people and animals, sliced-up body parts and jars filled with everything from deformed fetuses and dried penises to a Chinese lotus foot, tattooed skin samples, and examples of "corset livers," a byproduct of the tight corsets women (and some men) laced themselves into during the 19th century in order to attain a fashionably small waistline.
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Christopher Kane, for example, titled his 10th anniversary collection "Make Do and Mend" after the rallying cry of 1940s wartime rationing, and the imperative to create something new out of whatever was at hand: "road kill" fur pencil skirts with stretch tulle T-shirts boned like corsets; squiggle yarn dresses and prints crafted from his own runway archive; knits and chain mail strewn with sparkling geodes, and frilled stretch lace dresses and Lurex pleats spliced with sheer panels, dug up from his own past.
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