Body Shape and Motion Inspire Great Fashion Designs

Early Middle Ages finds woman wanting to show their small waists, which is the greatest difference between male and female bodies (not counting genitalia). It started by women pulling in their waists at the sides of a tunic, making the fullness fall at the sides. Then a “eureka”, and they realized that a waist seam would get rid of the fullness. In old English, that separation was called “a pair of bodies”, which became “bodice”. <img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:585/1*RjrCIk8j2B1BTSKuAD7xcA.png" style="height:654px; width:585px" /> From “THE ULTIMATE FASHION HISTORY”. Elizabethan era 5The 16th century Elizabethan went to an extreme on the waist Using an iron corset, the average waist was 16 inches — and sometimes killed them. The big skirts below and ruff and collar above made the waist look even smaller. The tiny waist went on for the next 200 years, the Victorian era, into the 20th century, and ended with the Flapper era <a href="https://medium.com/illumination-curated/body-shape-and-motion-inspire-great-fashion-designs-fbdf298c4215">Website</a>