It’s a golden age for costume drama, but does it matter that the details are so wrong?
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telegraph.co.ukwere worn under Empire lines. Those “simple” shifts of the French Revolution still required cantilevering. Corsets were shortened and rebranded as stays.
Their function wasn’t so much to shrink the waist as to push up breasts and improve posture. By 1820, dandies wore them too.
So did some children. Metal was introduced into their construction and their manufacture was considered so physically demanding they could only be made by men until the latter half of the 19th century.
In the end, the clue’s in the name – costumes are critical to a costume drama’s success, not just as sugar coating but for what they reveal about character and the social mores of the time.
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