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Fashionable Forties: Girdles and corsets and the right shape, oh my Vintage Underwear, Vintage Corset, Vintage Dresses, Vintage Outfits, Retro Mode, Mode Vintage, 1950s Vintage, Lingerie Retro, 1950s Fashion

Let’s stay in the same time frame as in the post about fashionable figures, the early 20th century to the 1950’s, but remove the clothes and see what was worn underneath. The origins of corsets or stays are very hazy, the first known examples dates to around 1600, but those are already fully developed garments, two layers of fabric stiffened with reeds or whalebone. A piece of clothing designed to change the female body so it conforms to the ideals of the time. And ideals change- just during…

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Simone Stapper