| Retro styling - you must have seen that term before! It | | | | needing a sleek, chic silhouettes. Now girdles, corsets |
| is applied to everything from clothing to home | | | | or corselets became essential. Suddenly all women |
| furnishings. Retro comes from the Latin meaning | | | | wore girdles, and not just women either - all the |
| 'backwards'. Here we are discussing retro shapewear. | | | | shapewear manufacturers targeted not just women |
| Much of the following discussion relates to the fifties | | | | but teens as well. A variety of girdles for the young |
| sleek,chic girdles, but it equally applies to today's girdles | | | | adult were produced. Probably the teen girdle that |
| modelled on the original designs. | | | | gained the maximum coverage, in more than one |
| The war years were years of austerity and women | | | | sense, was the panty girdle - a tight-fitting cross |
| on both sides of the channel dressed for comfort, to | | | | between a girdle that held the tummy in and one that |
| help the war effort. Women, eager to attract partners | | | | protected the wearer from advances, whether |
| at the end of the war, so fashions reflected this desire. | | | | unwelcome of otherwise! |
| Couture house Christian Dior came up with styling | | | | |