Corset in fashion
In the time many different Corset was in fashion.
| Name of Corset | Start age |
Characteristic | Breathing | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| iron corset | 1500 | No Compresse | - | |
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| Stays (narrow conical) | about 1550 | Low waist | fine? | |
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| Stays (conical) | about 1575 | lowered chest? | poor? | |
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| Stays (narrow conical) | about 1700 again 1750 |
Compressed lowered chest Low waist | poor | |
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| Unstayed Stays | about 1775 |
fine? | |
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| Romanticism | Ball-Ball, Hourglass | 1815 | Low horizontal waist | medium | very rare |
| "Pipestem" corset | 1830 | Pipestem waist | fine | very rare |
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| Victorian (horizontal waist) |
Ice cone Ball-conical |
1830 | Raised chest Low waist |
fine | Ballet, opera |
| Conical-conical Hourglass |
1855 | Raised chest High wasp waist |
fine | Edge in liver | |
| "Health corset" | 1880 | Raised compressed chest Long concave waist |
medium | Flattened liver Not healthy |
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| Edward (Sloping waist) |
S-curve 'Gibson girl' |
1900 | Raised expanded chest High sloping waist |
fine | Floozie Edge in liver |
| S-curve 'Dagmar Hansen' |
1910 | Low sloping wasp waist Raised expanded chest |
fine | Singer | |
| Straightfront | 1902 | Extreme big loin curve Expanded chest. Wasp waist |
medium | Edge in kidney Bad back |
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| Straightfront | 1909 | Extreme high small loin Extreme high sloping waist |
poor? | Edge in kidney Bad back |
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| Pipe-shape | 1910 | Expanded chest no loin curve |
fine | ||
| Pipe-shape | 1910 | Press buttock, no loin curve | fine | ugly, inconvenient |
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| Ice cone Ball-conical |
1947 | Raised chest Low waist |
fine | high shoulder | |
| Hybrid-corset | 1970? | Short pipestem waist | medium | |
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