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Adaptations of Historical Design Elements

Why should we take pattern from historical Corset-design to corsets of now-a-days?

This question seems to be surely quite permitted for now-a-days designers and customer too. But it is also evident that just details of historical corset-styles are able to fulfill different objectives.

Additional to an improved wearing-com- fort and waist-reduction at the same time, historical corsets offer a pronoun- ced optical fascination in so far, that they differ remarkable from 'modern corsets' and can demonstrate on this way a certain pretension on 'Exclusivity'. This claim is demonstrated for instance with the 'Straightfront-S-Line-Corsets' as well known as 'S-Curve-Corsets', that are mostly designed extra long to cover also parts of the bottom and create an unusual straight upright posture.

Also stays are getting more and more female connoisseurs outside the scene of precise correct historically dressed corset-wearer (i.e. Rococo-Reanactors), probably selected first hand for the possibility to select adequate and excel- lent fabrics for bridal- or wedding-corsets, which are adaptable also to the general outfit and remarkable different from other normally used narrow or tight bodies

Corset Jasmin
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The Victorian-corset is the top-design-style of historical corsets in general and totally indispensable from any other spectrum. The reason might probably be that for nearly all modern corsets of today design-ideas of this ancient got adapted and got now often more or less simplified. The original design-characteristics of corsets, made in the epoch of Queen-Victoria, showed an extreme complicate design to get the stiffening rods at the most effective position, and that in conjunction with a large variety of details. Modern technologies of today allow to participate and transfer this high-level-ideas and significant line-shape into well fitting modern corsets and create the characteristics of more 'Exclusivity', which differs remarkable from the mass.




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