As the name implies, girding refers to the behavior of ancient women girding their waists with girdles in order to keep their waists slim. In order to pursue a slim waist, women in ancient Europe adopted the way of excessive waist binding, and some even bound their bodies into deformities and even lost their lives seriously. The act of girding the waist originated from the court. It is said that a French queen was pregnant unexpectedly, and in order to hide her eyes and ears, she tied her gradually bulging belly with a belt. As a result, they found that it had the effect of raising her chest. If matched with fashionable clothes with low collars, the breasts are looming, which turned out to be a trend at that time.
At that time, men thought that women's waists would arouse their lust, but in women's minds, the purpose of doing so was to show off their jewelry.
Before the invention of women's bras, women's corsets needed to be supported by boards, whale bones and leather. If you take off these corsets, your whole body will become loose. They even think it's immoral. At that time, ordinary people could not afford bras, which would affect their work. So at that time, a kind of cheap corset was produced in society, and the method of corset was adopted.
The underwear worn by ancient people is actually this kind of corset. 1580- 1600, an iron corset appeared. With the change of human behavior, corsets have also changed. /kloc-in the 0 th and 8 th centuries, corsets similar to bras gradually began to rise.
So what harm did the ancients take for a long time?
Ancient people usually used whale bones, wood, ivory and other hard objects to support the skeleton and maintain its firmness. In order to keep slim, those women would rather endure physical pain, and there were long and deep wounds on both ribs, which kept them in the skin until they died.