The Tight-Lacing Corset As Birth Of Modern

This where the term "corseted waist" came from. A century ago a corset was a corset and that was that. The high street manufacturers started producing so called corsets (lingerie corsets) made with stretchy materials and boned with plastic, this in turn rendered the corset a useless name. In response the "Steel Boned Corset" arrived. The addition of steel boned to corset became the new corset,