... 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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... 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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