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    Corsets 1810-1830 History Notes Book 17
    Corsets 1810-1830 History Notes Book 17
    Corsets 1810-1830 History Notes Book 17
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    Corsets 1810-1830 History Notes Book 17

    By Suzi Love

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    This book shows how corsets changed to fit well under clothing and to give maximum support and comfort. Corsets pushed up breasts and showed off the bust line beneath a square-cut and low-cut neckline as in the early 1800s, or Regency years. Jane Austen and her female and friends wore these corsets.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSuzi Love
    Release dateMay 30, 2021
    ISBN9781005589585
    Corsets 1810-1830 History Notes Book 17
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    Suzi Love

    I now live in a sunny part of Australia after spending many years in developing countries in the South Pacific. My greatest loves are traveling, anywhere and everywhere, meeting crazy characters, and visiting the Australian outback.I adore history, especially the many-layered society of the late Regency to early Victorian eras. In and around London, my titled heroes and heroines may live a privileged and gay life but I also love digging deeper into the grittier and seamier levels of British life and write about the heroes and heroines who challenge traditional manners, morals, and occupations, either through necessity or desire.Tag Line- Making history fun, one year at a time

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      Corsets 1810-1830 History Notes Book 17 - Suzi Love

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      Introduction

      Corset Or Stays

      Body wraps, stays, and corsets have been used throughout history to create fashionable shapes and silhouettes. These early undergarments have had many names, but until the late 1600s were generally referred to as bodies, or a pair of bodies, and then replaced by the word stays .

      The name stays probably comes from the French estayer meaning to support. The word corset, which comes from the French word corps for body, had been in use centuries earlier, though often with not quite the same meaning. By the beginning of the 19th century when these undergarments took on more shape and form, the word corset was generally used instead of stays.

      Late in the 18th century, stays changed shape to support the breasts and show a slimmer torso under flowing Neo-Classical style gowns. But in the early 1800s, or Regency Era, stays became more structured and the name changed to a corset. These undergarments weren’t designed to change the shape of a woman’s body as they were in earlier centuries and weren’t rigorously shaped and fitted like Victorian or Edwardian corsets.

      They were designed to fit around an elevated, or Empire, waistline which circled directly under the bust. The aim was to give a natural form to the body by hugging the shape of the chest and wrapping around the torso. Boning and cording was used to keep the fabric taught and to stop the garment from crinkling and riding up, and not for shaping or lifting.

      The drawstring neckline of a shift, or chemise, helped secure the upper half of the breasts and gussets sewn into in the stays cupped the breasts and kept the lower half of the breasts in place.

      It was around the 1790s that the term corset started to be used as a refined name for stays. The Times of 24 June 1795 stated that: 'corsettes about six inches long...are now the only defensive paraphernalia of our fashionable belle'.

      Gathering information on corsets used through the Regency Era is

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