The corset has been an indispensable supportive undergarment for women, in Europe for several centuries. The appearance of the corset represented a change from people wearing clothes to fit their bodies to changing the shape of their bodies so that they could fit into fashionable clothes.
The corset first became popular in sixteenth-century Europe, reaching the zenith of its popularity in the Victorian era, and eventually falling out of fashion by the end of the First World War to make way for early brassieres and girdles.
This project is a small collection of the history of women's support undergraments from the end of the 18th Century to the beginning of the 20th Century. This library is being created for fashion entusiests, costumers, and the curious of the history of the worlds most controversial piece of fashion history. I welcome you to take a look around at this cabinet of curiosities dedicated to the infamous corset.
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This digital library is an educational project of a student from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Library and Information Science Program, class LIS 676 Creating Digital Libraries. All of the content used was purposefully aimed to be under public domain and open access license, and collected from other digital libraries that have explicitly stated such terms of reuse of content.
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