Corsets originated in ancient Rome.
Before the Renaissance in Europe, women's bodies were almost unconstrained, and women put on petticoats as underwear.
In the17th century, the fashion world thought petticoats were too lewd as underwear.
As a result, "corset" appeared, and its history of torturing women began.
Women consciously build a tight fortress on their carcasses, and bind their bodies with thick strips of cloth in an almost cruel way, leading to rib fractures, abortion, internal organs displacement and so on.
This kind of "torture device" brought by women consciously was called "comfortable craft" by the media at that time.
For centuries, corsets have turned women into elegant slaves.
At the beginning of the 20th century, new women set off a new fashion trend, and the position of underwear should be longer than the hip circumference 10 ~ 40cm.
With the wide application of elastic fabrics in clothing, underwear has become more and more comfortable and easy to wear.
19 16 years, the invention of nylon marked that women's underwear was divided into long bras and waist hoops, and the era of modern underwear has arrived.
By 1922, bras were finally popularized, which was a real liberation.
World War I had a great influence on women's underwear. After the war, women dressed themselves up as boys.
All kinds of underwear began to appear, including combination underwear and single underwear.
In addition to pursuing boyish appearance, ladies also choose underwear that can express feminine beauty.
These are some thin and hanging underwear, the colors are pink, yellow, blue-gray, jade, purple, orange, scarlet and black, but they are just a flash in the pan.
The masterpiece of the new design is tights, which are advertised as "just like women's sleeveless shirts, underwear, corsets and short-sleeved shirts, they can make the body naturally soft and slim, and are a fashion necessity in the new era".
Most of these underwear are made of cotton, silk knitted fabrics and fillers.
In 1930s, most corsets didn't need hemming and lacing, and the progress of man-made fiber technology led to the appearance of two kinds of materials: one is biaxially stretched elastic band developed by Deng Lupu Rubber Company 1929, and the other is rayon developed by Courtaulds Company 1930.
The corset made of these materials is light and elastic, which can not only keep a woman's figure but also do no harm to her body.
Hollywood stars led the fashion of seeking slim, elegant and curvy beauty in 1930s.
Women worship the "sexy goddess" on the screen and imitate the makeup and dress of these female stars, such as greta garbo, marlene dietrich, jean harlow, mae west and joan crawford.
American and French fashion designers use satin and crepe which are soft and elegant, close to the body and show sexy lines to design and provide the clothes that Hollywood stars and wealthy upper-class customers desire.
French designer Madeleine Vion's "oblique cutting" (cutting fabrics across natural textures) can play a special role in this respect.
It creates a kind of slender underwear that slides over the hips and waist and separates the breasts, making the chest line the focus of fashion.
In order to show the beauty of slim figure, a new type of underwear has become a necessity.
Most of this new underwear uses new man-made fibers, from rayon to elastic mesh materials.
Although they are all practical, they are too monotonous, because in order to keep the lines smooth, the decoration needs to be limited to a minimum.
The practical underwear published in British vogue magazine makes women look lifeless.
Some casual decorations can often make the finishing touch, so people who agree with this view tend to use romantic underwear at the beginning of the century.
In the late 1930s, DuPont registered the first nylon patent.
Nylon fiber is light, high strength and soft, and can be used to weave yarns with different weights. Its fabric doesn't need ironing, and it can be hung up to dry quickly. It is an ideal material for making bras. It was soon discovered that all underwear had traces of nylon.
At the 1939 Paris Spring Expo, a brand-new underwear was displayed: brand-new leaking bottle shape, thin waist and protruding chest and buttocks.
However, the development of the world situation has restrained the development of fashion. This year, with the outbreak of World War II, the world was once again in crisis.
Almost ten years later, this fashion surfaced again.
World War II led to economic weakness, shortage of materials, and underwear became a luxury, which led to utilitarian color in both function and style.
1945 after the war, although the wartime rationing system was still implemented in the following years, women in Europe began to be eager to show their feminine charm again.
On 1947, Christian dior released a new Dior style dedicated to these women. The British "Pictorial Times" commented: "There are no lazy shoulders, only tight belts and wide skirts with hip pads ... These clothes can only be made in Paris, because only Paris dares to make such a bold attempt."
The key to Dior's new style is its small belt, which was originally a new bra designed by massl Rosa in 1945.
It is called "abdominal belt" in America, "bee belt" in Britain and "wasp waist" in France.
This corset skirt has a long brace of 12 ~ 20 cm, which gradually evolved into a petticoat with waist line, and another evolution is a soft dress that only needs to wear a bra without braces.
Fashion magazine describes it this way: "The figure is not only given by God, but also depends on good exercise and a suitable bra.
Exercise depends on will, bra depends on wise choice. "
In the 1950s, many famous European women's fashion shops were closely related to the underwear industry.
London Fashion Designers Association cooperates with some underwear companies, such as Baylor Company, while other fashions, such as fashion shops in christian dior, have their own underwear designers, and their models enjoy a high reputation on the runway.
Due to the emergence of new printing and dyeing technology, underwear in the 1950 s had a wide choice of popular colors and patterns.
The main colors are sapphire blue, tea red, emerald green, coral, purple red and peach red, with various soft flower patterns.
The entertainment industry also has a great influence on the design of corsets.
It was the time of Elvis Presley, bill haley and the Comet, and rock music and swing dancing prevailed.
These dances require a great swing of the waist and hips.
In Europe, nobles meet models, communicate with them and even marry them, such as model and actor Grace Kelly.
Nevertheless, constraints and traditional values still have a place.
The shapes of French actresses Leslie Caron and Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina Faire set the tone for underwear in the late 1950s.
At the end of this decade, social change reached its peak and a series of major technological innovations appeared.
1959, a new fabric "k fiber" was developed in the laboratory of DuPont company in the United States, which was called spandex fiber in the market and later renamed Lycra.
Lycra revolutionized the underwear industry in the 1960s.
In the 1970s, under the trend of advocating health, underwear design focused on support. The earliest design of sports bra was to sew elastic shields used by two male athletes together.
At the same time, punk style became popular. The women's clothing store run by designer westwood and her collaborator Kyle McLaren sells clothes made of fetish style and rubber, which became a fashion choice for a period of time and had a great influence on the design of the whole 1980s.
In 1980s, underwear manufacturers began a new exploration to express the beauty of human body, from focusing on the functionality of underwear to focusing on appearance charm.
In addition to highlighting women's lines, gorgeous fabrics are needed, including ribbons, high-quality cotton cloth, mesh lace, glossy silk and crepe, georgette satin and various lycra materials.
Some finished products are transparent, some are translucent, with ruffles, live pleats and ruffles.
This fashion was strengthened in American TV soap operas in the mid-1980s, such as Dallas and Tang Dynasty.
Millions of viewers around the world watched the heroine's feminine clothes and were attracted by them.
They wear well-made men's suits in the office and sensational corsets in the bedroom, just like Madonna and Cher.
People still long for slim and healthy figure. By the late 1980s, women realized that they could shape "underwear" by some artificial means to achieve their desired figure.
The corset, which evolved from sportswear, has successfully become a body-shaping suit. Its main feature is the use of steel brackets or bras in the chest and appropriate fasteners in the crotch for elastic control and adjustment.
Nowadays, the difference between underwear and outerwear is blurred, and the development of women's underwear seems to have gone through a complete cycle.
This century begins with the enchanting feminine beauty of S-shaped curve and ends with Versace's new "Joker" brand.
Just like in the early 20th century, this kind of "all-around" underwear is the essence of many products and the basis of correct modeling.
Christian dior hit the nail on the head: "Without the foundation of fashion, there is no fashion."