Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Corsets are much, much older than the Cinderella story

The story of Cinderella traces back more than 2,000 years to a Greek tale. Corsets are even older.
As Valerie Steele notes in her book The Corset: A Cultural History, waist-training mechanisms like corsets have probably existed since the days of early Crete. That means the idea of corsets has been around for more than 5,000 years. These garments were slightly different from what we think of as a corset today, however. They were worn on top of clothing, instead of as undergarments.
The French created the word "corset" in or around the 14th century after Italian noblewoman–turned–queen of France Catherine de Medici brought the wearable we know today as the corset from her home country to France. It was quickly adopted by members of the French court.








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