S-bend Corsets, 1900s
The age of the corset was a wild time. It seems almost incomprehensible to modern folks that women laced themselves up into wildly restrictive corsets on a daily basis, regardless of the weather, occasion, or their own health. Believe it or not, there were different styles and iterations of the corset over the years. The S-bend corset rose to prominence in the early 1900s. The S-bend corset was marketed as a “healthy” style of corset because it was believed to put less pressure on the abdomen.
Whether that was really true or not was beside the point, as it also created a “desirable” silhouette that many women wanted at the time. The S-bend corset forced a woman’s shoulders and bust forward while pushing their backside out, creating a swishing posture and gait that was probably insanely uncomfortable. We don’t miss the “good old days” of corsets being the norm.