The purpose of 18th interval stays was to emphasise the bust, while drawing the shoulders back. At this time, the eyelets were reinforced with stitches, and were not placed across from particular another, but staggered. This allowed the stays to be spiral laced. Individually end of the stay lace is inserted and knotted in the basement eyelet, the other prong is harm through the stays' eyelets and tightened on the top. To tighten the laces the wearer had to hold onto something, as this method Lingerie of lacing pulled the wearer from side to side as it was tightened.(Steele, 22)
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Since the late 1980s, the corset dead duck experienced periodic revivals, which have ordinarily originated in haute couture and which have occasionally trickled through to mainstream fashion |
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| These revivals focus on the corset as an note of outerwear rather than underwear |
| The strongest of these revivals was seen in the Autumn 2001 fashion collections and coincided with the release of the film Moulin Rouge!, the costumes for which deformed bounteous corsets as characteristic of the era. |