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While bound to please primarily examine the ways in which corsets UK operated to construct, maintain and police middle-class femininity, it is important in an exercise of this kind to redress three widely held gender and class associated misconceptions. – PowerPoint PPT presentation

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Beauty Desires Provides Online Shopping of
Corsets UK
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While bound to please primarily examine the ways
in which corsets UK operated to construct,
maintain and police middle-class femininity, it
is important in an exercise of this kind to
redress three widely held gender and class
associated misconceptions. The first of these is
that nineteenth-century working class women went
un-corseted. The second is that middle class
women had corsetry imposed upon them by a
fashion system in which they were cultural
dupes, and thirdly, that the design and
manufacture of corset was entirely the province
of men. All charges, I would suggest, need to be
challenged. Women from working and middle
classes wore corsets in UK, both classes were
implicated in its production and both groups
resisted and manipulated the societal compulsion
to corset.
Corsetry was essential, not just in constructing
femininity, but in constructing a class-based
identity and subjectivity. Corsets UK was prized
by fashion-conscious, middle-class women because
it crafted the flesh into class-appropriate
contours. That is, corsetry operated to hide any
coarse abdominal bulges from view, while it
smoothed the hips and created the small, circular
waistline that supposedly denoted good breeding.
The well-corseted body, in tandem with suitable
clothing, gave an immediate first impression of
gently. It operated, to the distress of many
middle class women, in exactly the same way for
their working-class sisters. When successfully
corseted and carefully clothed, the working-class
woman improved her physical appearance and
consequently her chances of securing an upwardly
mobile marriage. Beauty Desires Ltd Company
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However, while both groups used corsets for class
specific reasons, the use of the garment by
working- class and middle-class women was subtly
different. These differences resulted in tensions
that were propelled and underpinned by a kind of
feminine competition. Middle-class women, as we
shall see, used corsetry to strengthen and
protect their class hegemony, while working-class
women corseted UK to obfuscate or escape their
working-class origins with the hope of entering
the world of their betters. It has often been
suggested that working-class women eschewed
corsetry altogether or alternately donned the
garments just on Sundays and special Occasions.
Working-class women bought, were given, or made
corsets UK, believing as their middle-class
sisters did, that corsetry supported the body was
an established item of British.
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Stays, corsets UK, or jumps as they were
variously known, were an important part of the
wardrobe of women across the social classes.
Jumps were the popular choice of working-class
women in early part of the century and designed
to fit more loosely than standard corsets, which
allowed the occupant enough mobility to work.
When worn loosely, as they generally were, they
indicated working-class activities involving
menial labor. A tightly laced appearance created
by more constrictive corsetry signified that
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unlike the slattern in jumps the occupant was
above physical work. The availability of
affordable, tightly fitting, professional made
stays in the early part of the century blurred,
or at least threatened, corporeal class
distinctions based on tightly bound, corseted,
respectability in Beauty Desires Company Ltd.
Working-class women who could not afford even the
cheapest of professionally made corsets did
not necessarily have to go without them. They
could make their own. The plethora of dressmaking
and millinery texts published in the 1830s and
1840s, which provided detailed advice on how to
make stays, can be seen to indicate the
importance the garment held for working-class
women. Materials required making the garments,
including whalebone pre-cut into suitable
lengths, the sturdy base fabric called buckram,
and the required corsetry thread called stay
silk, were all commonly available from
haberdashers. So too were the strong, specially
designed needless used to stitch the garments
together, called between needless. Numerous
basic household texts patiently explained the
processes of the corsets UK constructions.
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The industrialization of the corsets UK later in
the century meant that working-class women had
even more opportunities to purchase rather than
make their corsetry. However, despite the
economic democratization of corsetry, a few
women from both the working and middle classes
still preferred to make their own garments. The
home pattern service published in The Young
English Woman, a magazine concerned with
romance, fashion and to a lesser degree, female
employment, occasionally published descriptions
and drawings of corsetry which could be made at
home for children and Young ladies. These appear
to have been far less constrictive than
commercially manufactured garments of the time.
Harpers Bazaar routinely published both detailed
illustrations and instructions for making both
juvenile and adult corsetry throughout the
century (UK) _at_ http//www.beautydesires.co.uk/cor
sets.html.
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Despite the ease potentially afforded by homemade
corsets UK, the popularity of manufactured garment
s increased dramatically in the latter half of
the century. This process was undoubtedly
assisted by the use of advertising. However,
while advertising must have been a significant
aspect in the demise of the self-made corsets,
its decreasing popularity was probably due to the
superior strength of the manufactured variety
and the promises such strength held for women
anxious to improve their body shape. The
invention of metal eyelets in 1823 was,
conceivably, a turning point in corsetry
manufacture, for their inclusion meant that
corsets could be laced very tightly without the
eyelets tearing open. As a consequence, the
mid-century store-bought heavily reinforced
corset, complete with metal eyelets riveted into
the fabric, furnished a tighter fit and would
therefore have more successfully created the
sought-after sculpted figure for both working
and middle-class women.
Several major firms whose corset advertisements
were actually directed to a middle-class
clientele also disclosed that they produced
garments for working-class woman. On occasion,
advertising for these corsets UK encouraged the
idea that their purchase could transform the
lives of working-class woman to that which
approximately the lives of their better-off
sisters. Advertisements placed by the William
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Pretty and Sons corset company claimed that when
their garments were worn the occupant would
look a better woman, would feel a better woman
and would be a better woman. Ads placed by the
British corsetry firm R W.H. Symington were a
little subtler though they made similar promises.
Symington made a corset called The Pretty
Housemaid that was obviously destined for use by
the socially aspiring working-class woman could
divorce themselves from the class hierarchy that
was associated with, and surrounded, the
corsetry (Beauty Desires Company UK.)
Institutional corsets worn by female inmates of
prisons, asylums and poorhouses were, even
in comparison with the cheapest ready-made
garments, uncompromisingly ugly. They had little
in common with corsets UK produced for aspiring
working-class and established middle-class women.
The Symington museum in Leicestershire has a fine
example of institutional corsetry. Though
constructed on stalwart principles similar to
those of most manufactured garments, Symingtons
institutional corsetry differed markedly from
those garments in that it was made of a
hardwearing, unattractive fabric in a color
known as drab, which is a kind of dull khaki.
Institutional corsets UK were devoid of any
trimes whatsoever, and were laced at the back
and buckled down the front, closing much like an
old-fashioned school satchel, while as a heavily
boned.
This would have allowed the occupant enough
mobility to work. Paradoxically, while this
design was intrinsically better from a health
standpoint, it meant that incarcerated women
would have found it impossible to lace their
bodies into a shape that enhanced their
self-esteem. Indeed, incarcerated corseted
working-class woman experienced a demeaning
double-bind while contained in these garments.
Many inmates probably wore these corsets UK under
trying physical conditions, believing that the
garments assisted their bodies. However such
rudimentary corsets would also have operated to
remind these women of their reduced or expunged
femininity and their seemingly inescapable
criminal- class status. They may have operated,
psychologically at least, as an extension of
their incarceration. Corsetry also worked to
mark and reinforce class parameters for
middle-class women in a similar, but far more
positive way. Middle-class women, especially
those in foreign lands, may have either
consciously or unconsciously considered corsetry
to be an ideologically. Corsetry is a
significant, if under-researched, aspect of the
(respectable) working and middle-class colonial
project.
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