Jul
02
2009
Ur Couture | The House of Lucile
Posted by: in Lingerie News, tags: Bodice, Bosom, Corset, Couture, Edwardian Period, Exaggeration, Excerpt, Fashion, Hips, Images, Mono, News Sources, Shape, Trend, Victoria And Albert, Victoria And Albert Museum, WomanNews Sources wrote an interesting post today on
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Images courtesy of V&A Images/Victoria and Albert Museum, LondonThe mono-bosom trend of the Edwardian period. As fashion embarks on its latest exaggeration of the female form, it’s fun to recall a time when the powers that be did a real number on a woman’s shape. Class, does anyone remember the mono-bosom? With the help of an S-shaped corset, so tightly laced at the waist that the hips were thrust forward and the bosom, padded in the bodice and made to droop forward, the Edwardian woman, with he
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