corseting

I laughed until my sides hurt under the tight corseting, holding on to his arm.

The full sleeves required support for their effect, while rigid corseting constricted the torso.

"The supply of air you could get through your corseting was less than the demand that your lungs required."

By the 1790's, all the corseting and restricted fashion of French dress had given way to easier, almost punklike looks.

'Will you be able to breathe, and sing, with all that corseting?'

Caroline had often observed women swoon either from too-tight corseting or as an act of desperate policy.

Fortunately, Aphrodite's corseting insured that her reach impeded her grasp.

She stood, as smooth and as supple as a cat, to stretch as much as her corseting would allow.

I essayed a restorative deep breath, but the tightness of the whalebone corseting made it come out as a strangled gasp.

The fullness over the bottom was balanced by a fuller, lower chest, achieved by rigid corseting, creating an S-shaped silhouette.

The binding of feet in the Orient or corseting of the body in the West were ways of restricting women's movement.

An occasional word or two of elementary common sense from Hippolyte Taine helps to keep in perspective the mental corseting with which intelligent Americans had to struggle.

The advanced 1890s permitted bathing suits to catch the eye, but only with nautical touches and a less engulfing shape, under which corseting might be applied to sharpen the outline.

In reaction to the heavy drapery and rigid corseting of mainstream Paris fashion, aesthetic dress focused on beautiful fabrics made up simply, sometimes loosely fitted or with a belt at the waist.

For women who want the effect but don't care to be corseted into their clothes, or don't have someone to do the corseting, Mr. Alaia has stretch knit dresses with stripes that accentuate every curve.

In reality, tight corseting was most likely the cause of indigestion and constipation but rarely the cause for a plethora of ailments associated with tight corseting at the time ranging from hysteria to liver failure.

During the final, Chibana wore a black evening gown exhibiting intricate laticework designed by Olivier Theyskens for Rochas, and at the preliminaries, Chibana sported a unique red and pink-hued gown with silver corseting designed by Novespazio.

During the second half of the 1820s, this neoclassical aesthetic was decisively repudiated, preparing the way for the main fashion features of the next ten to fifteen years (large sleeves, somewhat strict corseting of the natural waist, full skirts, elaborate large-circumference hats, and visual emphasis on wide sloping shoulders).

Hard to steer, to balance, to float, she had learned instead to consent; to cast herself onto the wind and learn the whole length and depth and height of its strength, and in perfect relaxation, the stern corseting of gravity left far below, her whole body had been open to power and loveliness.