Corset, as early as in ancient Greece and Rome, women used linen, wool or leather to make corsets to reflect their beautiful bodies. However, it was not until the Middle Ages that the tight vest could be regarded as the prototype of corset that had a great influence on the pattern of European women's wear. In the16th century, the corset had a complete shape and became an independent part to shape the three-dimensional shape of women's chest and waist. At that time, Queen Elizabeth (1558-1603) strongly advocated waist-binding, which influenced the fashion of women at that time. Renaissance women's clothing is famous for its beautiful clothes with thin waist. Medieval women who just walked out of a "shell-shaped" dress without a waist, in order to highlight the curvaceous beauty of their bodies, completed the shape of a thin waist through the combination and comparison of waist-binding and skirt, thus making the hard waist-binding and huge skirt fashionable. In the subsequent Baroque period, women's clothes were still slim and protruding hips, still in the form of tights, and skirts were once eliminated. The tights of this period were embedded with many baleen at the waist, and the stitches spread radially from the waist to the chest. /kloc-in the rococo era in the 0/8th century, slender waists including men's wear became fashionable, and corsets and skirts became popular again and reached their peak. However, the corset in Rococo era was more prominent than that in Baroque period in the number and direction of embedding whalebone. In the neoclassical era (1789- 1825), the style of women's clothing became simple and simple, the corset and skirt were once removed, and the waistline was raised below the breast. In the romantic era (1825- 1850), women's corsets were reactivated, and the waistline returned to its natural position. In the new Rococo era (1850- 1870), women's clothing continues to develop in the direction of restraining figure, and corsets and Clinolin skirts are necessary appliances for plastic surgery. In the subsequent Basl era (1870- 1890), women dressed with corsets to hold up their chests, flattening their lower abdomen in front, and at the same time contrasting with hip pads and draglines protruding backward. This extreme form reached its peak in the S-shaped era (1890— 19 14).
It has lasted for more than 300 years since the Renaissance. In order to achieve the goal of graceful waist and vigorous skills, ladies and gentlemen in Europe do not hesitate to gird their waists with tights since childhood, but their muscles and bones are severely squeezed, which greatly affects the normal activity function of the human body. Why are corsets so attractive to women? In order to meet the perfect curve change, women are willing to endure all the pain of flesh and blood? There are external reasons as well as internal reasons.
During the Renaissance, the emerging trend of humanism opposed the feudal theological authority. They observe problems with people as the center, replace divinity with humanity, oppose the asceticism of the church, advocate individual liberation, and emphasize the concepts of benevolence and equality. The ideology, culture, art and other aspects of this period had a great influence on clothing. From the appearance of clothing, the emphasis and exaggeration of gender differences is the main feature of this period. The center of gravity of men's wear is in the upper body, which is an inverted triangle, which shows the sexy characteristics of men through the strength of the upper body and the closeness of the lower body. The center of gravity of women's clothing is in the lower body, which is a regular triangle with light top and heavy bottom. By exposing the chest, the corset is contrasted with the skirt with enlarged lower body, which reflects the sexy characteristics of women.
/kloc-in the baroque period of the 0/7th century, its artistic style was different from that of the Renaissance, full of vigor and movement, magnificent momentum and great emphasis on decoration. /kloc-in the second half of the 0/7th century, corps baleine appeared in women's clothing, which made the slender upper body shape popular again in the 0/kloc-6th century.