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The Corset - A Cutural History by Valerie Steele. 2005
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- ISBN
- 9780300099539
- Book Title
- Corset : a Cultural History
- Item Length
- 1.1 in
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.1 in
- Genre
- Design, Art, Social Science
- Topic
- Fashion & Accessories, General, Customs & Traditions
- Item Width
- 0.9 in
- Item Weight
- 38.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 208 Pages
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The corset is probably the most controversial garment in the history of fashion. Although regarded as an essential element of fashionable dress from the Renaissance into the twentieth century, the corset was also frequently condemned as an instrument of torture and the cause of ill health. Why did women continue to don steel and whalebone corsets for four hundred years? And why did they finally stop? This lavishly illustrated book offers fascinating and often surprising answers to these questions. Valerie Steele, one of the world's most respected fashion historians, explores the cultural history of the corset, demolishing myths about this notorious garment and revealing new information and perspectives on its changing significance over the centuries. Whereas most historians have framed the history of the corset in terms of oppression vs. liberation and fashion vs. health and comfort, Steele contends that women's experiences of corsetry varied considerably and cannot be fully understood within these narrow frames. Drawing on extensive research in textual, visual, and materials sources, the author disproves the beliefs that the corset was dangerously unhealthy and was designed primarily for the oppression of women. Women persisted in wearing corsets-despite powerful male authorities trying to dissuade them-because corsetry had positive connotations of social status, self-discipline, youth, and beauty. In the twentieth century the garment itself fell out of fashion but, Steele points out, it has become internalized as women replace the boned corset with diet, exercise, and plastic surgery. The book concludes with insightful analyses of such recent developments as the reconception of the corset as a symbol of rebellion and female sexual empowerment, the revival of the corset in contemporary high fashion, and its transformation from an item of underwear to outerwear.
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Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-10
0300099533
ISBN-13
9780300099539
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2474195
Product Key Features
Book Title
Corset : a Cultural History
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Fashion & Accessories, General, Customs & Traditions
Publication Year
2003
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Design, Art, Social Science
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
1.1 in
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Width
0.9 in
Item Weight
38.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Gt2075.S74 2003
Copyright Date
2003
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
391.4/2/09
Dewey Edition
21
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