Fifty replicas of the trunk surfaces were made by applying a gypsum method to female subjects (average are 19.3 years) in a normal posture. Each replica was developed and the flat trunk surface ...pattern was produced. The gaps on the surface development pattern of the front trunk were regarded as a factor for unfolding the trunk surface onto a flat plane. There were the gaps of the FCL 1 (front center line 1), FWL (front waist line) and CWL (chest width line) in all front surface development patterns. But other gaps of the FCL 2 (front center line 2), FBL 2·3 (front bust line 2 and 3) and FASL 1·2 (front arm scye line 1 and 2) did not appear to all. The surface development pattern of the front trunk was divided into ten (1-10) blocks. By examining the shape of these blocks we were able to determine the equations of the relation among the lengths of the sides of the blocks. In blocks 1, 4 and 5, the lengths of the sides including the gaps of the FCL 1 and CWL were made by those equations. The gap of FWL was made according to the lengths of the sides of the blocks 1, 2 and 5.
EPILOGUE Haulman, Kate
The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America,
08/2011
Book Chapter
In the 1790s, the corset reentered the world of fashion. This is not to say that the midsections of women’s bodies had gone unsupported in the decades, even centuries, before. Stays, or “jumps,” and ...stomachers stiff ened by whalebone shaped the forms of many women in the early modern period. But the word “corset,” from the Latin for “body” and dating to the late medieval period in reference to an outer garment, one also worn by men, had been out of use for some time. It reappeared in common usage in 1795 as a “closely fitting inner bodice . .
