Davina Vincentes

Pre – 1500Corset – like ‘idols’ have been discovered on the Greek island of Crete that date back to around 2000 b.c. By placing two ceramic pots together by their bases, a waist shape was obtained, with the handle of the upper...

From the early Nineteenth Century to around 1970, the straight – fronted corset was in vogue. The corset took its name from the very rigid and straight ‘busk’ that was used down the front of the corset.

Pipe-shaped corsetsFashionable from 1908 to 1920, the pipe-shape gave the wearer a slender and straight shape, a reaction to the earlier exaggerated shapes of the s-curve.