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Talk at Historic Huguenot Street recounts painful trends in women’s undergarment

July 02, 2012 05:00 PM | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend | print
Women have been mutilating their bodies through fashion in a myriad of ways throughout history, and no less so than with the corset: a figure-tightening straitjacket of sorts that can be dated back to 2,000 BCE. With more than 2,000 items of clothing in Historic Huguenot Street (HHS)’s collection, HHS educational director Susan Stessin-Cohn decided to present a talk focused on corset trends that wove their way through the fashion world and onto woman’s bodies over several centuries.
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