Word: corsetmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stylists into swift, devastating action. After the openings last week alert buyers, repeating the new in cantation "Edwardian or earlier," ruffled through their style notebooks to report : ¶ Waistlines are definitely stabilized at the level of the "natural waist" which must and will be emphasized by corsets. Stylists and corsetmen agree that there will be no wasp-waist pinching but high-bosomed, hourglass effects achieved by elastic sheaths, tight perhaps but with few corset bones or lacings. ¶ Daytime necklines are either modest V's or 'tend high and round with variations such as mannish stocks and severe...
...Waistlines even higher and smaller, causing corsetmen to take heart along with ostrich farmers...
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