The first corset appeared in the first half of16th century. This underwear style using hard whale bones or animal horns was first popular in Spain and Italy, and then became popular in Europe. It is believed that French Queen Catherine de Medici (pictured) introduced the whale bone corset from Italy to France.
/kloc-The Renaissance since the 0/5th century has greatly promoted the development and progress of women's underwear culture. After the long-term imprisonment of conservative religious thoughts in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance inspired human beings to pursue the beauty of shape, shape and curve. Almost all classes of women are shaping and improving their curves with unprecedented enthusiasm. Therefore, corsets and waist clips became the basic underwear necessary for European women at that time. At that time, tight underwear was divided into "soft" and "hard". "Soft" tight underwear is made of cloth, leather and rope. Adopt multiple pieces of three-dimensional cutting, and tighten the waist with ropes; The "hard" tight underwear is made of wood or metal, and the joints are fixed by hinges and hooks, which is very painful to wear.
A: During the Renaissance, corsets reached a peak. They are necessary for adult women, and some men wear corsets to adjust their figure. At that time, the dress of corset was more complicated, and it was generally necessary for outsiders to help wear it from behind. Some complicated corsets even take more than an hour to put on. At that time, most of the bones supporting clothes were whale bones.
B./kloc-in the middle of the 0/9th century, modern corset forming. Lace buttonholes became metal buttons, and rubber bones replaced whale bones. 1850, the British were improved, and the corset with buttons on the chest replaced the corset worn by outsiders.
C In the history of China, there were similar clothes such as corset, chest wrap and Chinese-style chest covering in the Tang and Yuan Dynasties.