Some Renaissance faire garments

Usage examples of corsets.

Her corsets were only a little tighter than she would have tied them herself.

A century ago every military tailor also made and sold corsets, so that the officers might present a trim appearance in their skin-tight breeches.

I have even heard military historians say that the reason Wellington beat Napoleon at Waterloo was that the English officers had stronger corsets than the French, and thus were able to sit longer in the saddle.

Ebbsmith, who could sin, repent and have hysterics without disturbing their elaborate hair-dos or making their corsets creak more than was considered decent.

This reminded me of one of my earliest business ventures, when I patented and attempted to sell Marchbanks' Patent Stay Oil, a scented unguent which was rubbed well into the corsets before putting them on.

She never laced her corsets anywhere near as tight as fashion dictated.

He wants to know what a woman's body is like without corsets and bustles, wants to know so much that he's driven to stealing looks at sleeping women.

She was loudly distressed when she learned that Scarlett had stopped wearing corsets, and vocally disappointed that none of Scarlett's gowns needed mending.

I do not consider a dislike of corsets and a firm belief in the equality of the female sex peculiar, but I must admit that Nefret’s habit of sleeping with a long knife under her pillow might strike some as unusual.

Long, elegant lines that emphasized her height and made her seem subtly taller, subtly more matureand infinitely more alluring than the ruffles and lace and corsets she'd worn before.

Male and female, they were painted and dressed, with their long hair crimped and braided in elabo rate styles, their slender, nearly sexless forms hidden be hind flounces and drapes, padding and corsets, or flowing robes with padded shoulders.

Though most of the other women donned corsets and bustles, and tried to be more English than the exiles, talking about a home they'd never seen and weren't likely to, trying to pretend the world they left behind didn't exist.

We got to talkin' about it and she said, "If that Goddus only had corsets on, and sleeves that wuz skin tight, and her overskirt looped back over a bustle, it would be perfect!

And how could she ever enlighten the world, if she wuz so held down by her corsets and sleeves that she couldn't wave her torch?

She fit snugly if stiffly into his arms-he had never been in such close contact with a girl wearing corsets before-and the soft pink mouth was a good deal more experienced than it had appeared.