Towards Liberating Women from Corsets
At the end of the 19th century, it was customary for ‘properly’ dressed women to spend their days imprisoned in ornate dresses with padding and layers of underclothes including corsets which restricted movement and were very confining.
It was Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel who used her fashion genius of design and scissors to set women free by changing the reality of what was considered the only socially correct way that females should dress in polite Western society.
As she herself explained, “I gave women a sense of