The Corset: a perfect chilling read to curl up with this Autumn

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And there was plenty of interest and anticipation in the story to hold the listener's attention at all times. While many corsets were still sewn by hand to accommodate the wearer’s measurement, there was also a thriving market in cheaper mass-produced corsets. Her first novel for Raven Books THE SILENT COMPANIONS won the WHSmith Thumping Good Read Award 2018 and featured in both the Zoe Ball and Radio 2 Book Clubs. And Eliza Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton’s wife) wore a corset (well stays and then corsets) everyday and lived to be 97! It could be seen on Tiktok, Instagram, Pinterest and other social media platforms, and became even more popular by the sudden amount of celebrities wearing it to events and nights out.

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Dorothea has an interest in phrenology, the study of peoples skulls to see if they have a propensity for murder among other things, and when she comes across Ruth during a charitable visit to the local gaol, she can't help but try to read her skull. Dorothea is an amateur phrenologist from the privileged class who believes that an individual's character is determined by the contours and lumps on their skull. Corsets have been in fashion for several years although the origin is unclear historians date it back to the 16th century. Enola puts on a Victorian corset and explains, “ The corset: A symbol of repression for those who are forced to wear it.The Corset was also a Gothic story like Silent Companions with 2 protagonists Ruth and Dotty with intercepting lives. A brace is used to push the curves so that they do not progress, and sometimes they lower the curves. Noblewomen in European countries started to use Corsets under their gowns and even over their gowns by the late 1500s.

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In Elizabethan times, the corset moulded the torso into a cylindrical shape rather than the hourglass shape that was sought after by Victorians.This eliminated the need for the type of corset that had been so popular among women for the past 400 years. In England, the ladies of the Victorian period wore differently shaped corsets than the ones in the Tudor and Elizabethan period.

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She refers to Dr Warner who "decided corsets were bad for women, and invented his own 'health corset' [1873], to give women the 'perfect' shape – and made him a fortune by doing so. However, use of the waist cincher was restricted to haute couture, and most women continued to use girdles. The garment continued to evolve and pieces of wood and metal were also attached to most corsets to create more structure. Which was a long V or U shaped panel that decorated the front of a corset extending from her neckline down to the waist, sometimes even below the waist. In the period I knew well, France from the Revolution to Waterloo, the “bustier” was very popular – sometimes they even wore an embroidered one OUTSIDE the gown.

Depending on the desired effect and time period, corsets can be laced from the top down, from the bottom up, or both up from the bottom and down from the top, using the bunny ears lacing method.

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Corset which was popular during the period of Queen Elizabeth I’s reign in England from 1558 to 1603. During the late 1500s, when whalebone was used at the sides and back of the corset, the corset was laced up at the front.Women wore loose fitting dresses that covered them from head-to-toe, prioritizing comfort over shape.