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Stays and Body Image in London - The Staymaking Trade, 1680-1810 (Hardcover)
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Stays and Body Image in London - The Staymaking Trade, 1680-1810 (Hardcover)
Series: "The Body, Gender and Culture"
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Stays were the most important article of women's clothing in
eighteenth-century life. Worn from infancy, they were designed to
reshape the female body into an accepted aesthetic ideal. Starting
with their production and trade, Sorge-English uses surviving
examples to look at the intricacies of the staymaker's craft, the
role of gender in the design and manufacture of stays and their
changing shape over time. The study shows how long-term use caused
serious health problems throughout women's lives and that as they
became more involved in the production process women influenced
their design to become closer to the natural female form. This book
takes a unique approach to the cultural and social history of
clothing by combining material analysis with more traditional
research methods that includes the discovery of an
eighteenth-century staymaker's diary.
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