What the Heck Is a Bust Bodice? – Redthreaded

$ 21.00 · 4.5 (320) · In stock

Are you working on an Edwardian or teens-inspired outfit? Perhaps you’ve made or purchased one of our s-bend or underbust corsets and are now wondering what to pair with it to build the perfect historical silhouette. Enter the bust bodice. Or the bust improver. Or the brassiere. Whatever the advertisements called them
Are you working on an Edwardian- or teens-inspired outfit? Perhaps you’ve made or purchased one of our s-bend or underbust corsets and are now wondering what to pair with it to build the perfect historical silhouette. Ender the bust bodice. Or the bust improver. Or the brassiere. Whatever the advertisements called them (and, wow, did they love naming them), the goal was the same: create an ideal figure while supporting and shaping the bust.

After the dramatic curves of the S-bend silhouette, the fashionable figure of the early 1900s gradually shifted to favor a long, columnar line