Underpinning Twenties Fashions: Girdles and Corsets

Flat in Front, Flat in Back In our breast-obsessed culture -- the culture of push-up bras, cleavage, silicone, and breast augmentation surgery – we are bewildered by the early 1920s fashion ideal, which emphasized a curve-free, flat-chested silhouette. Most people have heard that women "bound their breasts" to achieve a boyish figure.  (I always pictured…

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