kelly grant wrote:
am not really wanting the "melons on a platter" as some >said earlier.
I think of the melons on a platter in the 18th Century, not Elizabethan,
as the corsets are shaped differently. The Renn and Elizabethan are
more tubular in shape to the 18thC cone shape that gives you a higher
bustline. That and the 18thC women showed them off a bit more than
earlier women, what with the partlets of the earliers times.
I'm not the person to do it, but someone may have the time, someday, to
do a photo essay about corseted bosom shapes through time, starting with
Tudor and going up through some of the less, er, skilled tailoring of
newer-to-historic-costuming folks where the bosom seems to be supported
as if horizontal acreage was key.
It would probably help a lot of newer folks to know what they were
aiming for.
cv
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