the History of Corselet

Since the Renaissance, which is lasted for more than three hundred years, the European beauties in order to achieve the graceful waist, since the childhood, they were in tights to thin waist so that muscle and bone suffered a serious crush, greatly affecting the body’s normal functions. Why corselet attracted women so much, that is them in order to satisfy the perfect body curve, female ready to endure all the flesh and blood of the pain? There are the external and internal reasons.

Renaissance, new humanism ideological trend is to against the feudal theology authority, they with the humans center observed a problem to the human nature in the place of god, against the church of asceticism, advocating liberation, emphasizing the love and personality equally. The period of ideology, culture, art and other aspects exerted great influence on clothing. From clothing appearance, we can saw it emphasized the difference of the sexes and exaggeration that is the main features of this period. The center of gravity in the upper part is the men’s clothing, showed a triangle, through pour robust muscle and cling the lower half to show male sex. Women dress gravity in the lower body, is a focus of the triangle is under the light weight, through the bare chest, using the corselet and the lower half of the swollen contrast skirt to reflect the female’s sexy characteristics.

17 century of the baroque period, its artistic style had difference with Renaissance different, it is full of vitality and innervation, imposing, stressed decorative. The latter of 17th century, the dress appeared surface extremely rich in decorative corselet (Baleine Corps), it made the 16th century slender waist to popular again.