More than 400 years, corsetry, once called “stay”, is a tight piece of underwear worn on the middle part of a woman’s body to make her waist appear smaller. In the ancient society, a slender waist became a fashion empire. It is said that the reign of corsetry had created the fashion history. The uses of corsetry illustrated its benefits and support for women’s waists to achieve prevailing figures in the past term time. In the sixteenth century, corset was clearly chracterized into two types: the fashionable corset and the orthopedic corset.
However, corset was a controversial garment in the phenomenon of its history. In fact, the corsets had been blamed for causing many diseases such as cancer, curvature of the spine, deformities of the ribs, displacements of the internal organs, birth defects etc.