... make the woman look more appealing, mainly to men. After the women's movement became stronger and more well known, the use and popularity of the corset decreased. Soon after the American Female Moral Reform Society (AFMRS) was established, women not only began to stand for their own rights, but also ... it would sometimes cause the cracking of the ribs, permanent physical disfiguration and in the cases of pregnant women, abortion. One comparison of the corset to a modern fashion item would be the high heel shoe. Both forms of fashion have been proven to damage the body with long term ....

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... positions of power. Their breasts stood for material wealth, political power, and purity. The Minoans are given credit as the first people to use a corset. They wore bodices that laced below the bust, bracing and exposing the breasts (Winston, Website). Priestesses known as snake goddesses, were notorious for large ... The breast stood as a symbol of power and wealth at a time when mercantilism was on the rise in Europe (Latteire, 1998, p. 32). The corset, which was previously used to flatten the breasts, was used to push in the stomach and push up the breasts (Winston, Website). Louis ...

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... the tale of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the lady of the castle tempts Sir Gawain with a magical, green girdle and explains to him that the wearer of this corset "could not be killed by any craft on earth.(1854)" Sir Gawain, amidst an ethical dilemma, accepts the gift and chooses to conceal it from Lord Bercilak. This passage contains ... into accepting it. Her argument was just the final point that Gawain needed to have the courage to leave his principles and take the girdle. When Sir Gawain accepts the corset, he fails this test of faith, for he "Sweetly did he swathe him in that ...

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... birth of Haute Couture. From her first millinery shop, opened in 1912, to the 1920s, Coco Chanel rose to become one of the premier fashion designers in Paris. Replacing the corset with comfort and casual elegance, her fashion themes included simple suits and dresses, women's trousers, costume jewellery, perfume and textiles. Her relaxed fashions, short skirts, and casual look were in ... sharp contrast to the corset fashions popular in the previous decades. Chanel herself dressed in mannish clothes, and adapted these more comfortable fashions which other women also found liberating. She...

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... casting and possibly be labeled as a "loose woman." In the beginning of the 1910-decade it was similar to the 1900's, until 1914 when World War I broke out. The tight corset was gone and the hobble skirt made an entrance. It was called the hobble skirt because it was so tight women could not walk, they had to hobble (Peacock 52 ... made of chiffon, stiff satin and taffeta with whalebone corsets sewn into the dress gave women an ultra-feminine "hourglass" figure. During the latter part of the 1950's, however, the corset was cast off for a more comfortable feel and a more natural look. Al...

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... 74, fit III of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the lady of the castle offers Sir Gawain a magical green girdle. She explains to him that the wearer of this corset "cannot be killed by any cunning on earth" (Stone, p. 90). Sir Gawain, amidst an ethical dilemma, accepts the gift and chooses to conceal it from the host, Lord Bertilak. This ... of her words. Her argument was just the final point that Gawain needed to have the courage to leave his principles and take the girdle. When Sir Gawain accepts the corset, he fails this test of faith for he "binds himself with this belt of green" (S...

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... slim, tall, thin lines preferred today. Therefore, clothes stress or hide certain parts of the body for achieving of silhouette close to the ideal of a particular time. For example, the corset was used to make woman's waist thinner in the Victorian era, when the ideal was S-shape figure. Only in the XX century mankind remembered natural lines of a woman's body and ... stopped the deformation of the trunk by the corset, which reflected the notion that true women were men's complementary opposites. Technical developments (the telephone, electric lights) in the 1900's that were affecting e...

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... shot by Solanas was an important event in his life that concluded with him having to receive open chest heart surgery and he experienced physical effects leading him to wear a corset (Andy, 1975). "Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there-I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. People sometimes say that the ... ...

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... , held features of which that lowered its possible level of friction drag in water, due to its high quality fabric. It also was shaped in such a streamline fashion, it had a corset-like support known as a Hydro Form Compression System (Nasa Spinoff, 2008). Generally speaking, swimsuits different from the LZR Racer all act very much similar, just not as well ... ...

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... did not make any profit from the arrangement. George W. Tubbs and the the New Jersey Wood Paving Co. did, therefore their liability was not reduced. Egbert v. Lippmann- Samuel Barnes created a corset steel, which held corsets together by springs. He gave his girlfriend Frances a pair in 1855. Giving her another pair in 1858, showing their friend Joseph Sturgis in 1863. In 1866 ... ...

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... of curvy silhouettes, big sleeves, ruffles, and trains. He then went on to introduce the cinched in wasp waist in his last Paris collection in 1940. He reintroduced the Victorian corset, which created the wasp waist and defined the bosom. Bocher relocated his business to New York on 57th street right next to Tiffany's where he established "Mainbocher Inc." ... ...

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... controversies this year was on the Super Bowl Sunday when Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake performed and in front of 140 million viewers Justin Timberlake popped off part of Jackson's corset, exposing her breast. That incident raised everyone's eye brows. It was done during the time kids were watching and it was done on purpose. CBS was scheduled to air Grammy ... ...

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... was very prosperous, and that is why the twenties are often labeled as the roaring twenties. During this decade, women's fashion really started to stand out. Women stopped wearing the corset, and wore shorter and slimmer skirts that were more brightly colored. They began to cut their hair shorter. Back then it was regarded as scandalous because it was so different ... ...

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... clothes. Though she is not remembered as a great beauty, Elizabeth was considered a woman of great style. A typical Elizabethan look was stiff. She wore a Tudor ruff, epaulets, a jeweled wig, a body-hugging corset, and a farthingale. Both the forehead and brows were plucked. Englishmen were sent abroad to study new fashions and to make purchases: for example, fur muffs and collars from France. A conch ... ...

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... masculine image by making hair secondary to a woman's beauty. Corsets, which women had been wearing for centuries, suddenly lost their market. Available fashion was simply not designed to encompass the corset. Instead, women began to wear braziers. The idea of wearing less obtrusive undergarments influenced women to show more leg by wearing shorter dresses and skirts. Women of the 1920s became ... ...

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Whaling is a business, an economic endeavor. Profits are sought from the products produced. A whale's cadaver was processed for lamp oil, candles, medicines, perfume, machinery lubricant, and corset staves. The first type of whaling done was shore whaling. Along the New England coast, Native Americans sent their boats out and speared one of the passing behemoths. This practice ... ...

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... he grew up his father allowed him to "tinker" with many of the tools on the farm. Ford's mother called him a "born mechanic" and provided him with darning needles and corset stays to make into tools for his watch repair work. Probably the most dramatic event in Henry Ford's life happened in 1876 when he was thirteen years old. While riding ... ...

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... he grew up his father allowed him to "tinker" with many of the tools on the farm. Ford's mother called him a "born mechanic" and provided him with darning needles and corset stays to make into tools for his watch repair work. Probably the most dramatic event in Henry Ford's life happened in 1876 when he was thirteen years old. While riding ... ...

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... Heorot where he awards Beowulf with gold, a banner embroidered, a byrny and a helm. When having a feast in the honor of Beowulf, Wealhtheow proclaims a speech to Beowulf: "Take, dear Beowulf, collar and corset. Wear these treasures with right good will! Thrive and prosper and prove your might. You have earned the underlying honor of heroes. May fate show favor while life shall last ... ...

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... forties had finally made the transition to two separate pieces, the bra and the girdle. The term "bra" was now widely used to identify the upper portion of the outdated corset (something like usually close-fitting). Leather platform shoes were the rage. Their soles were often studded with "nail heads", another sign of opulence and luxury after the severe metal rationing ... ...

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... citizens. The first class apartments are lavishly decorated with paintings and luxurious furniture. The writers of the screenplay make it very clear their disapproval of actions of the tuxedo clad, corset-imprisoned crowd with the money. The writers portrayed them in a very poor light, and looked down on the fact that they brought along maids, bodyguards and their favorite paintings to ... ...

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... 's nice to see some cleavage. In most movies that I watch, it's always nice to see some cleavage. An example would be Pirates of the Caribbean when Kiera Knightly has on a corset that pushes up her breasts to show some cleavage. Even music videos show off cleavage from Pink's new video to Jewel's Intuition Video. I think that women also have are obsessed ... ...

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... women are show as the "other" and represented as and object for the male subject to look at. In The Lost World Marguerite is at one stage shown wearing a white corset-type lingerie bodice, revealing ample cleavage. She is, however, virginal in her depiction in comparison to Veronica, with her bikini skin top and loincloth bottom, her body taking on the ... ...

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... hemline rose. The overall fashion theme for women changed. "Flappers" wore thin dresses with short sleeves that showed their ankles, and eveningwear might even be sleeveless. They also disregarded their corset. Before the war women's clothing was heavy and awkward but by 1928 they were focused on light and comfortable clothing. In 1913 the average woman used nineteen yards of fabric ... ...

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... such grandeur and scale was revolutionary. Costume historians have pointed out that the sitter's cross-legged pose was considered masculine in the mid-eighteenth century; moreover, the structure of her corset would have made crossing her legs uncomfortable. The colors are soft and inviting in this particular piece, as was the case of all 18th and 19th century paintings. Her gown ... ...

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