Beautiful corsets. Sexy. Elegant. Exciting!
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Anne Bissonnette is the curator of THE LINGERIE COLLECTION at Kent State University Museum. If you are interested in a brief, visual history of lingerie or if you would like to be inspired as to what the past dictates as very sexy...take a look. From iron casts to whale bones to brocade silks...we've donned it all! |
| The History of corsets - "CORSETS, and the urge they meet, to reduce the waist and exaggerate the body's natural curves, are as old as civilisation itself. Drawings scratched onto bone over 20,000 years old found at the Neolithic site at Brandon in Norfolk, show women wearing bodices made of animal hide, probably moulded to the body when still raw, laced down the front and fastened round the waist with skins. Stone dolls, found in the flint caves, were also dressed in dried skin corsets, tied with the sinews of birds and small animals. read more (Click on History of Corsets) |
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Great Reading.... Support and Seduction - Compressed, uplifted, flattened, and pointed--women's breasts have been subjected to the endless whims of fashion. This lighthearted book, loaded with historical facts and anecdotes and images ranging from the hilarious to the sublime, recounts the often surprising history of the garments Western women have worn for support--and seduction. |
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