The First days of the Corset!

 This fahion technic has been used for centuries.

Corsets can be traced all the way back to the neolithic

times. Corsets are found in drawings that dipicts women

wearing bodices that were made from animal skins that

were laced down in the front.

By the way corset is a newly used word before they

were called bodices!!!

1700BC

The Minoans of the island of Crete used corsets that fitted and laced or smaller corselette and left the breasts out.The Minoans also had a snake goddess who wore a fitted vest that helped support and display the breasts as well as leather rings or bands that confined and accentuated the waist.

Men were also depicted in artwork of that time period with tiny waistit is also believed they used belts to pull waist tight. They would begen on the boys in order to train their waist.

The corset is also found in other ancient cilviliations like Crete, Egupt, Rome, Greece, and Assyria. Women in these cultures frequently took part in laborious activities like gymnastics and bullfighting that obligated the use of consticting bands or garments for support.Grecian women wore bands called zona. Cretan women wore heavy rings around the waist and bolero jackets to give the breast support. Egyptian women wore a band under the bust as a part of the exterior garment.The Romans used tight lacing corset for superiority over slaves to show their low status and enslavement to their masters and mistresses.

The corset is also mentioned in the Bible in the 3rd chapter of Isaiah "instead of a girdle,there should be rent and instead a stomacher of sackcloth, and burning instead of beauty". Even early Christians used rope to bind their waist for penance. From ther the word got around.