Corseting up to join their ranks this year are Glenn Close and Janet McTeer, who both masquerade as 19th-century chaps in Albert Nobbs.
But weren't Victorian ladies always doing their corsets up too tight, and therefore fainting away at the slightest provocation?
The first half is shot almost like a horror, all oppressive rumbling clouds and lashing of mist and shot of her back, suffocating corset laced up like a spine.
The shoes may have corset lace-up tops or floral prints, but all have high heels, the distinguishing feature from old-school clogs.
Describing the way Pepper's mother and aunt dominated his life, McCaughrean says: "the women leaned in against Pepper's childhood like a pair of book ends – big, ponderous women so full of tragedy they could barely make their corsets hook up".
"They were corseted up the back," Mr. Amadei explained.
It includes conservative methods such as corsets up to the point when surgery is definitely indicated, in order to improve stability temporarily when seated, and surgical stabilisation of the spine.
You can get fabulous panties with corsets up the sides, you can unlace them slowly and just let them fall away!
There is no evidence that anyone actually burned a bra, but a year after the summer of love, at the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City, around 400 protesters threw bras, corsets, make-up and copies of Playboy magazine into a dustbin in a symbolic rejection of traditional femininity.
1. Blush-hued gloves by Agnelle are made of buttery leather and have a seductive corset lacing up the back ($115 at Bergdorf Goodman).
