![]() health and comfort, Steele contends that women’s experiences of corsetry varied considerably and cannot be fully understood within these narrow frames. Whereas most historians have framed the history of the corset in terms of oppression vs. ![]() ![]() 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. 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. 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. The corset is probably the most controversial garment in the history of fashion. Named one of the 2001 Best of the Year by the Globe & Mail of Toronto Winner of the 2002 Millia Davenport Publication Award, sponsored by the Costume Society of America Selected for inclusion in the 2002 "Books to Remember" list by the New York Public Library ![]()
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