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	Gothic Corsets
		Corsets may be worn for orthopedic reasons, such as correcting a crooked spine or straightening the back and shoulders.
		However, as the corsets necessary to maintain a body modification are no less rigid than those first worn to achieve the modification, there is no effective structural difference between corsets worn during training and those worn once the desired body shape is achieved.
		The advertisement is for corsets for girls (as evidenced by the range of ages listed under the illustration), in which the shoulder straps are to keep the corset positioned correctly, and possibly to ensure 'corect' posture (that is, with back straight and shoulders square).
	www.frozenup.com /pages9/37/gothic-corsets.html (1436 words)

	Casino Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		All corset makers had their own style, but from about 1860, the corset industry of Paris was at the forefront of corset fashion.
		The straight-front corset was popularised by Inez Gaches-Sarraute, a corsetiere with a degree in medicine.
		The hourglass corset "suppress[ed] the bust," and the spoon busk, which often curved inwards for part of its length, "forced the organs downwards" claimed Gaches-Sarraute in her 1900 study Le Corset: Etude physiologique and pratique (The Corset: A Physiological and Practical Study).
	www.casinoencyclopedia.com /index.php?title=S-curve_corset (1180 words)

	History of corsets - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The iron corset also worked as a bulletproof waistcoat, because assassination by knife in heart was a common risk.
		The padded "iron corset" and armour was known as a corset on women, and a waistcoat (vest) on men.
		The straight-front corset (also known as the swan-bill corset and the s-curve corset) was a corset type worn from the start of the nineteenth century until around 1907.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /%22Straight-Fronted%22_Corset (1183 words)

	Iron
		Iron Crown (Middle-earth) The Iron Crown is a legendarium.
		Iron overload disorder In medicine, iron overload disorders are diseases caused by the accumulation of iron in the body....
		The Iron Heel The Iron Heel is a 1908.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/iron.html (2273 words)

	History of corsets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Iron corsets were used by both men and women, but only on dress occasions.
		The straight-front corset, also known as the swan-bill corset and the s-curve corset, was worn from the 1800s to the 1910s.
		It was a type of corset worn from the start of the nineteenth century until around 1907. ; Its name is derived from the very rigid, straight busk that was used down the center of the front.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_corset_periods (776 words)

	Corset (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		A corset is a garment worn to mold the torso into a desired shape for aesthetic or orthopaedic purposes (either for the duration of wearing it, or with a more lasting effect).
		Some large-breasted women say that they find corsets more comfortable than brassiere s, because the weight of the breasts is carried by the whole corset rather than brassiere shoulder straps which may chafe or cut the skin.
		Vollers Corset Company One of the oldest established corset makers, continue to produce traditionally made corsets that are renowned for their quality and authenticity.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Corset.html (674 words)

	underbust corset (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		After some corset training you can wear it for several days in a row if you want to, but try to loosen the laces as often as possible and give your body a full weeks rest if you have worn it for several days in a row.
		in the finished corset, the closurehooks should stick out of the middle front seam, so lay the closure next to this seam (still alligned with the pins on the other side) and mark were the holes for the closure should be.
		Iron the seam, turn the good sides of the fabric out and iron again from the outside.
	www.geocities.com /mekyria/corset01.html (2596 words)

	More on Corset
		Corsets are typically constructed of a flexible material (like cloth or leather) stiffened with boning (also called ribs or stays) inserted into channels in the cloth or leather.
		In the Victorian heyday of corsets, a well-to-do woman would be laced by her maid, a gentleman by his valet.
		Corsets were and are usually designed for support, with freedom of body movement an important consideration in their design.
	www.eduhistory.com /corset.htm (1459 words)

	Corset History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The padded "iron corset" and armour was known as a corset on women, and a waistcoat (vest) on men.
		The straight-front corset was intended to be less injurious to the wearers' health than other corsets; but, when worn too tight, these corsets were the most uncomfortable and harmful style of corset to ever have been widely popular.
		The hourglass corset "suppressed the bust", and the spoon busk, which often curved inwards for part of its length, "forced the organs downwards" claimed Gaches-Sarraute in her 1900 study Le Corset: Etude Physiologique and Pratique (The Corset: A Physiological and Practical Study).
	www.goodgoth.com /corsethistory.htm (1206 words)

	IndustryPlayer - License Info Lingerie (TEXTILE)
		Their idea of lingerie was a boned bodice corset, designed not for support, but to tease men, by pushing their breasts up and out, literally exposing them in their entire splendour.
		The iron corset must have been exceptionally uncomfortable and heavy to wear and could only have been worn by Elizabethan ladies not doing any form of heavy work.
		Although the whalebone structure of the corset still kept women tightly silhouetted, there was a definite movement to incorporate the artistry that marked the era.
	www.industryplayer.com /licenceinfo.php?licid=018100 (1785 words)

	History of lingerie.Allaboutdress
		S-shaped silhouette came into being: the corset with a bustle in back made a woman sit with the very tip of her bottom on the edge of the chair.
		Corsets were substituted for a more flexible girdle with the modern bra.
		A woman was decently covered by the one-piece garments known as corsets consisting of a rounded and bust-emphasizing brassiere and girdle with garters.
	www.allaboutdress.com /lingerie_history.htm (360 words)

	A History of the Corset
		The corset returned to the centre of fashion in the 1860s, and etchings of the demi-monde at race meetings of this decade show that corsets were universal for women.
		Corsets continued to be worn by men, supposedly for reasons of health, such as support for a bad back, and were recommended for men who were overweight to give them a trimmer figure.
		Corsets were often made of rubber, and the invention of the Lastex process by Dunlop rubber in the 1930s led to the invention of the modern two-way-stretch panty girdle, which is much more commonly used as a domestic discipline garment these days than the old fashioned lace-up corset.
	www.petticoated.com /corsethistory08.htm (1073 words)

	Making a Corset--No Tabs Version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Turn the satin ribbon over and iron it (or not, depending on the nature of the corset fabric).
		Once the busk is in place, a ribbon will go through the holes in the lining and through the busk, and tie together in a bow on the front of the corset to keep the busk from sliding out of place.
		It is helpful to finish off the lace you're going to use to lace your corset with by rolling the ends small and either wrapping clear tape or thread tightly around them, or dipping them in wax.
	costume.dm.net /corsets/corset1.html (1097 words)

	corset history, elizabethan, medieval corset, renaissance, history of the corset, SCA corset
		Corsets were most always worn by both the upper class women and men.
		The first corsets were not intended to decrease the size of ones waist, simply accentuate it and create an announcement of wealth or upper class.
		19th Century corsets were laced down the back and in the front from the lower chest to the waist, such as the riding corset.
	www.mycorset.com /corsethistory.htm (532 words)

	Corset
		Corsets do have two main types, because elastic material as rubber do not survive tight long...
		Corsets are known to have existed as long ago as 2...
		Straightfront corset The Straightfront Corset was a corset type in use from ca.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/corset.html (92 words)

	HBO's 'Iron Jawed Angels' reinvigorates the story of the suffragettes - The Boston Globe
		The phrase "Iron Jawed Angels," on the other hand, connotes an extreme-sports-like empowerment that speaks of youth, drive, and spiritual inner glow.
		"Iron Jawed Angels" relies on a disappointingly conventional script, one that delivers stock characters who have no dimensionality, and simplistic plot abbreviations that you'd find in a high school textbook.
		The rest of the women of "Iron Jawed Angels," both in NAWSA and in Paul's noble posse, are cardboard figures of either cranky elders or do-or-die followers.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2004/02/13/hbos_iron_jawed_angels_reinvigorates_the_story_of_the_suffragettes (684 words)

	Making a Corset--tabbed version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		If you're making a corset with straps, leave a 1/2-inch of extra fabric at the ends of the straps as well as along the bottom.
		Sew a seam 1/2 an inch away from the edge all along the waist edge of the corset, stitching the tabs and the two layers of corset fabric together.
		Starting at the edge of the back most tab, sew the ribbon and the corset together 3/8 an inch away from the edge to the bottom back corner, up the back, and along the top until you reach the busk pocket seam.
	costume.dm.net /corsets/corset2.html (1564 words)

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	The history of corsets
		The corset, containing the French word corps for body, is a cinching garment that encases the middle torso to either push up or flatten the breasts, or to hug the waist into shape, or both.
		It is argued whether the metal corsets were a normal item in a woman's clothing collection, if they were used for an orthopedic purpose, or if they were a sign of rank since a knight's armor during this period was more for show than function.
		The glove-fitting corset ready made and produced by Thomson and Company was constructed using steel while the first rubber corset was fashioned in the 1860's.
	ncnc.essortment.com /historyofcors_rmue.htm (1591 words)

	Eveden Ltd
		This is also the era of the iron corset - some say worn by Catherine D’Medici’s court as there were strict regulations which correlated a woman’s position in court by her waist size, others say it was for correcting bone deformities.
		The corset, commonly known as a ‘stay’, was made of linen with boning and stiffened with paste.
		As corsets were in such demand whalebone became scarce, leading to the use of buffalo-bone, cane, steel, and steam moulding in corsetry.
	www.eveden.com /main.asp?pid=254&rnd=6275 (720 words)

	Main Floor Style at Great Day America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		A new exhibit, entitled "The Corset: Fashioning the Body" at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City is more than just a dazzling display of the history of the corset, it's a timeline of fashion's transformation from constriction to comfort.
		Corsets were the one sure way to maintain the popular size of the times.
		In the '80s, underwear became outerwear, and contemporary corset fashions were once again the rage in designs ranging from the feminine to the fierce.
	www.greatdayamerica.com /style/fashion/lycracorset.shtml (452 words)

	Making a Corset--tabbed version
		Sew a seam 1/2 an inch away from the edge all along the waist edge of the corset, stitching the tabs and the two layers of corset fabric together.
		Starting at the edge of the back most tab, sew the ribbon and the corset together 3/8 an inch away from the edge to the bottom back corner, up the back, and along the top until you reach the busk pocket seam.
		It is helpful to finish off the lace you're going to use to lace your corset with by rolling the ends small and either wrapping clear tape or thread tightly around them, or dipping them in wax.
	www.elizabethancostume.net /corsets/corset2.html (1564 words)

	Borders - Feature - The Corset: A Cultural History
		Yet throughout its history, the corset was widely perceived as an "instrument of torture" and a major cause of ill health and even death.
		Thus, the author of the fetishistic book The Corset and the Crinoline (1868) claimed that metal corsets were customarily worn "in the time of Catherine de Medici," when "extraordinary tenuity was insisted on, thirteen inches waist measure being the standard of fashionable elegance."' This statement is inaccurate in all particulars, as we shall see.
		Metal corsets were still sometimes recommended in the eighteenth century to correct crooked spines, although canvas stays were more commonly used (for example, by Alexander Pope); and, indeed, orthopedic corsetry continues to be used by doctors today as part of the treatment for scoliosis.
	www.bordersstores.com /features/feature.jsp?file=corset (1512 words)

	Figure Control — FactMonster.com
		A band of linen or soft leather was bound around a woman's waist and lower torso to shape and control her mid-body.
		The iron corset was devised in 1579 and was worn by women for about 10 years.
		A short and light corset was made in America in 1911 for women to have the freedom of movement to dance the tango.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0767789.html (419 words)

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		Both are of iron and wood, and the following are the principal dimensions of the Colbert, which apply very closely to the Trident: She is 321 ft. 6 in.
		Putting the iron yoke across the cores, to constitute a horseshoe form, 496 was the throw; that is to say, the tendency of this electromagnet to retard the current was 496 times as great as that of the simple coil.
		Electromagnets with iron armatures in contact across their poles will retain, after the current has been cut off, a very large part of their magnetism, even if the cores be of the softest of iron.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/4/0/0/14009/14009-8.txt (18874 words)

	Brief History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The earliest display of something resembling a corset is that of a figurine found from the Minoan era (2000-1400 B.C.).
		It is said that she may be the one responsible for the design of the iron corset.
		The tight lacing corsets appear to be used by women and men for sexual pleasure and fetishes.
	www.csuchico.edu /~cheinz/syllabi/fall99/bendlin/page2.html (455 words)

	IRON DRESS
		with a fully boned corset -- she has curve at bust and waist.
		corset will be a great way to reproduce the softer lines of the gown.
		I'm going to be making that corset out of navy silk after all.
	hometown.aol.com /phaedra177/irondress2.html (288 words)

	Torture - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
		If corset is tight enough, it can also cause severe pain in the stomach, because it squishes it so hard.
		A locking corset can be used for that purpose, so that one wearing a corset cannot take it off, or loose it, when unmonitored.
		One of the gayer forms of torture is the tickling of the feet, often using feathers or the back-ends of small furry animals.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Torture (1706 words)

	Tricks in Magic, Illusions and Mental Phenomena--Queen of Knives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Have an iron bust (corset) or apparatus like the old "Suspension," but it works in the back of lady.
		She wears a fancy "Mother Hubbard" dress, with a 4-inch lace collar to hide the iron notch.
		When lady walks the iron is between her legs.
	sky.prohosting.com /fizbin/athenaeum/magos/books/blgm01/049.html (155 words)

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