Author Description

This book aims to explore the various means used to shape the silhouette, for both women and men from the fourteenth century until today. Through each period, and following the requirements that fashion established, manipulation of the form of body was accomplished through whales, basket, corset, crinoline, fake butt, ottoman or stomach belt. All these scaffolding-like clothing shaped the body, sometimes to the extreme. This book draws the long history behind the scenes of clothing and fashion in revealing and unsuspected diversity of mechanisms.