Corset,lingerie
Where did the bra come from?
Basically, undergarments were created to emphasize the silhouette by shaping up breasts, waist and hips with the sole purpose of rendering the female figure more attractive. The first recorded corset comes from Crete and dates back 3000 years ago. At that time, it wasn't o¬nly a piece of clothing but already an ornament, being adorned sometimes with a pin or a brooch. Later o¬n in Greece, fabrics made of leather and woolen hit the mainstream
Although people usually picture out the medieval era as somewhat poetic in that princesses wearing beautiful silk dresses and knights in lustrous armor, fashion was something useless in a time whose clothes would've been plain and functional. Influenced by Spanish style, the corset was then reinvented as designed to shape a very small waist and so as to elongate the woman's torso. The first corset was actually made of hinged iron armor. At the end of the 16th Century, materials such as whalebone, wood, and flexible steel started to be used creating a "comfortable" version of the corset.
The 18th century was characterized by the use of lighter fabrics, so the corsets had more color, decorated with ribbons, pins, laces and all kinds of fancy ornamentation. At that time, the shaping of the silhouette due to the use of tight corsets started to be disapproved by doctors. So the corset had o¬nly the function of emphasizing the breasts. At the beginning of the 19th century, someone had the ingenious idea of cutting of the midriff of a corset to allow more movement to the body and extra support to the breasts, creating the brassiere (which is French for support).
The
lingerie industry started to grow up very fast and the bra became a common accessory for every woman finding its place during World War I. The boyish look from the Flappers in the Twenties brought chemises, bloomers and light and loose fitting underwear, being replaced by a figure of a well-proportioned and feminine woman in the 30's. The creation of Latex by Dunlop Rubber was a remarkable advancement, allowing industry to make lingerie in different sizes to fit in each woman's shape.
Today we have plenty of styles and models made by several different materials, to fit not o¬nly o¬n each woman's body but also her desires and intentions. The purposes of the lingerie still the same - to make women more attractive - the o¬nly thing that has changed is fashion.
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