Sentence examples for corsets from inspiring English sources

Long lace sleeves, tiny corsets, pooling trains and a mountain of crystals made for a rather wan, two-dimensional sort of glamour.

Horst returned to this red, white and blue scheme repeatedly, a visual trope that echoed his effort to become an American citizen something that wasn't easy for a German in the 1940s.Horst took particular pleasure in pictures of the backs of women wearing corsets.

When women gave up corsets and bobbed their hair they also took up sports.

Such corsets need to be carefully designed and Germany's may prove too rigid.

Coco Chanel took women out of corsets and designed clothes inspired by menswear.

SINCE it took power in 1997, the Labour government has been as uncomfortable with heritage as are the out-of-work actors who squeeze themselves into corsets at the weekend and wander around Hampton Court greeting tourists.

The heavy furniture and stale air, the binding corsets and suffocating mores; what could be more maddening?

It encourages the reader to think of the practicalities of what goes where, and why, of what should drain (city streets, through porous surfaces into the ground beneath) and what should soak (seaside levels, released from the hydrologic corsets of Victorian planners), of what should be wild and what be tamed.Mr Kohn's book is a richer, harder and more rewarding read than Mr Kahn's.

Goggles and cogs adorn hats and waistcoats; the women wear ruffled Victorian gowns and corsets; and Dracula cuts a Romantic figure in tight trousers, a billowing white shirt and a tailored jacket.

everybody has left off even corsets!

Corsets became less restrictive or were abandoned.