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• n  a woman's close-fitting foundation garment
• v  dress with a corset

• By 1880 their corset business was so prosperous that they quit the medical profession, moved to Bridgeport.
• The LZR, which was co-designed by nasa experts, comes with a built-in corset to improve buoyancy and is constructed with compression fabric that keeps muscles from vibrating in the .
• When the word corset became unpopular, corset-makers shrewdly substituted the "foundation garment.

• girdle
• stays

News & Articles

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• Woman gets 16 inch waist by wearing corset for 3 years
  You won’t believe this woman’s waist. Take a look. Michele Kobke’s waist measures at just 16 inches. And she didn’t get that small waist from dieting. Kobke says she wore a corset continuously for three years, dropping nine inches off …
  June 11, 2013 - WPIX 11 New York
• Diane Kruger Turned Out Old Hollywood
  Last night, the actress stole the red carpet at the Critics' Choice Television Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel dressed in a strapless black lacy number from Nina Ricci's fall 2013 collection. Her ankle-grazing dress, with its lacy corset of a bodice and thigh-high back slit, looked like something straight ... More »
  June 11, 2013 - New York Magazine
• German Woman Achieves 16-inch Waist By Wearing Corset Constantly
  Michele Kobke didn’t get her 16-inch waist from dieting and exercising nonstop. The 24-year-old achieved her unbelievably tiny waist from wearing a corset nonstop for three years. The German woman started out with a 25-inch waist and managed to drop nine inches off her waistline in three years. She admitted to wearing the corset while [...] German Woman Achieves 16-inch Waist By Wearing Corset ...
  June 10, 2013 - The Inquisitr

Quotes

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• Megan Fox in MTV.com
  At the end of the day, when we would take [the corset] off, though, it would leave these deep grooves, these deep indents, from the boning in the corset and I would have it for like the whole next day,Megan told MTV News. "The whole 24...
• Emily Blunt in Los Angeles Times
  When I heard they were doing a monster movie, I said 'Hey, I can run and I can scream,said Blunt. "The first time I saw it [Benicio in full makeup], it was really disconcerting. ...... I really was running. In a corset!"