Redresseur corset
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This is a historically corset in use from about 1830s to 1918, a Redresseur corset or Training corset or shoulder corset was a corset used by girls at ages 12-13 years to about 18. Its purpose was to mold the torso into a fashionable shape. About 1859 the Redresseur corset replaced a pair of stays.
Prior to that, girls would wear a corsage. Girls in the Victorian and Edwardian era would use a corsage for many years, often from infancy, so the waist was already slim.
The Redresseur corset is only used when the waist is already slim, and only for permanent corset use, because the four floating ribs will change permanently.
This type of corset can be used for quick, permanent body modification, but for post-pregnancy waist reduction, the (underbust) hourglass corset is recommended for modern women.
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 1850 Shoulder Corset |
 1859 |
 1879 |
 Invicorator corset 1887 |
 used 1890-1909 |
 1908 |
 1909 |
 1911 |
 1911 |
 circa 1918 |
 The Normal Corset; 1900-1918; girls at 8 to 18 years. |
 Redresseur Corset; 1910s; girls at 7 to 14 years. |
 Spiella Bust Confiner; Style 70; 1913 |
 1917 |
[edit] Alternative
An alternative to Redresseur corset is shoulder straps on the outside of corset.
 1901 |
 1902 |
 1904 |
 1904 |
[edit] Sources
- The Englishwomans' Domestic Magazine, some letters from 1854 to 1869. Those are reprinted many times.
- London Life the letter from MODERATION. about 1930
- Patents
- Advertisings of Invicorator corset
- Bound to Please Leigh Summers
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