The Corset: a perfect chilling read to curl up with this Autumn

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A ribbon corset is an everyday wear corset made of lightweight materials (strips of fabric). It is very easy to wear and not so tight fitting as others. You can call it the modern day corset. 6. Tube corset So far, so gothic. It’s well told and the menace builds as it should. The whole thing doesn’t really seem to know whether it’s a crime novel or a supernatural chiller.

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Dorothea is a 25-year-old woman living with her widowed father. A woman who sees her calling beyond marriage, to live out acts of corporeal mercy: to feed the hungry, refresh the thirsty, visit the imprisoned and bury the dead. It was this compassion, and her interest in phrenology that brought Dotty to Ruth who stands accused of murdering her mistress. Dammed by her own tongue, Ruth confesses to making a corset that killed her torturer and mistress Kate. A death that would have been hard to explain as some form of evil magic or witchcraft, but with a confession to having woven poison into the corset with her threads, Ruth’s fate is all but sealed. After reading The Silent Companions, a modern masterpiece of Gothic fiction, I was very excited to try another novel by Laura Purcell. The Corset does not quite live up to the high expectations set by The Silent Companions, but it is, nevertheless, a very compelling read. These are corsets which are playful and flirty. They are usually decorated with lots of trims, ruffles, ribbons. A showgirl corset is very beautiful and eyecatching in an attention grabbing, provocative way. Originally these corsets were made out of cloth and silk but over time the aristocratic ladies started to reinforce their corsets with bones and tusks. The garment continued to evolve and pieces of wood and metal were also attached to most corsets to create more structure. The act of getting into the corset is called “Corseting” and it involved the corset manipulating the womanly curves, lifting up the bust, making the shoulders and hips looking wider in comparison to a squeezed in waist.The Corset was also a Gothic story like Silent Companions with 2 protagonists Ruth and Dotty with intercepting lives. I don't want to give spoilers, so I will be very brief with my review :) In the early 19th century, when gussets were added for room for the bust, stays became known as corsets. They also lengthened to the hip, and the lower tabs were replaced by gussets at the hip and had less boning. Shoulder straps disappeared in the 1840s for normal wear. [11] In the 1820s, fashion changed again, with the waistline lowered to almost the natural position. That was to allow for more ornamentation on the bodice, which, in turn, saw the return of the corset to modern fashion. Corsets began to be made with some padding, for a waist-slimming effect, and more boning. Some women made their own, while others bought their corsets. Corsets were one of the first mass-produced garments for women. They began to be more heavily boned in the 1840s. By 1850, steel boning became popular.

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very insightful, different women with their choices, but I think Victorian corset is more appealing If you are getting a corset, it will be in a size several inches ( usually 4 inches or so) lower than your body girth. You are then tightly laced inside it. It took hours for a lady and her maids to finish dressing. I grew up in the 70’s and hated bras, wearing them only when necessary: for work or sports. In the 90’s I discovered corsets, real corsets, custom-made to fit a woman and her lifestyle. When created in the proper size and worn properly, they have been comfortable. And, yes, I put them on by myself in a few minutes because I know how. The tight lacing in a corset, in my mind, is a symbol of the submissive role that women played in those times. A ‘corsetee’ moves a little bit more carefully and a lot more subdued than one without the confines of the corset. But many others will say that in a corset you walk a little bit more elegantly and gracefully. Yes, the wearer of the corset is perceived as attractive because of the strange waist-hip ratio entrenched in our minds. It is the precursor to the waist/body shapers, girdles and wonder bras we have today.That is an interesting perspective. The article is based on what I have read about and obviously there are better learned and experienced people who think different. Thanks for your input. The word “ corset ” can conjure countless images in one’s mind. Some may think of a tightly laced, organ-squishing garment worn by women in the 18th and 19th centuries to achieve an hourglass figure–the type that is referenced in historical television dramas and movies such as Bridgerton and Enola Holmes. Others may be reminded of the latest trend of modern, fashionable corsets, popularized by celebrities such as Billie Eilish, Bella Hadid and others, and may even have one in their closet. Corsets have been around for several centuries. So where did the history of corsets begin and how did they come about? 16th Century