The Corset: A Cultural History
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (814 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300099533 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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From Publishers Weekly For 400 years, women wore corsets that controlled their shape and constricted, and sometimes crushed, their ribs and organs. In the 18th century, "tight-lacing" was a common phenomenon, but in the 19th century, technology allowed for more effective corsetry. In The Corset: A Cultural History, Valerie Steele, chief curator and acting director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology and editor of Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, takes on an item of clothing that has achieved notoriety among many historians. Shortly after the turn of the 20th century, the corset became less popular and gradually faded almost completely from use, though recently, it's come back into fashion as sexy outerwear. But Steele challenges the popular view that corset-wearing women were merely the victims of fashion, and delves into the "complex gen
"The ins and outs of corsetry." according to Nancy T. Hernandez. A great history of the corset, for both men and women. A must read for anyone interested in the history of costume.. Fashionably Great A Customer Steele's book is well-researched, elegantly written, and, of course, fabulously illustrated. It's a great read for history buffs interested in Victorian manners as well as modern fashion-hounds who've noticed Britney Spears and Julia Stiles sporting updated corsets on the covers of Cosmopolitan and Rolling Stone magazines.Chief curator at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and author of several other scholarly books on fashion, Steele approaches the subject of body-sculpti. "Structure and meaning" according to Eileen G.. Valerie Steele studied the history of the corset, "probably the most controversial garment in the history of fashion," for more than twenty years. This beautifully produced book consists of six compulsively readable chapters and hundreds of illustrations. I couldn't put it down.In the first chapter "Steel and Whalebone: Fashioning the Aristocratic Body" Steele provides an overview of corseting. An "essential element of fashionable dress for over Structure and meaning Eileen G. Valerie Steele studied the history of the corset, "probably the most controversial garment in the history of fashion," for more than twenty years. This beautifully produced book consists of six compulsively readable chapters and hundreds of illustrations. I couldn't put it down.In the first chapter "Steel and Whalebone: Fashioning the Aristocratic Body" Steele provides an overview of corseting. An "essential element of fashionable dress for over 400 years," the corset nonetheless was o. 00 years," the corset nonetheless was o
An essential element of fashionable dress from the Renaissance into the 20th century, the corset has been viewed not only as an object of eroticism but also as an instrument of torture and subjugation. This is an exploration of the cultural history of the corset.