Part one of term paper
Body shape and underwear has had a significant part in women’s fashion. People may not think underwear could have such an impact, but it did. Women have gone from corsets to thongs in less than 100 years. During the years 1890 to 1899, underwear was not spoken of much. Women were trying to get the hourglass figure, and an “ ...

Part two of term paper
... under the rib cage. “This classical style of dress in diaphanous materials was fashionable” (Sichel, 18). Underneath an early 1890s corset there were some things kept hidden. It is said that breast piercing was a quick little trend in the 1890s. Piercing was done to improve the bust line by making it curve more. “By the end of the nineteenth century skirts still trailed on the ground at times, corsets were still too tight, but there were no more freak fashions and the Edwardian fashiona ...