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Body shape and underwear has had a significant part in women’s fashion. People may not think underwear could have such an impact, but it did. Women have gone from corsets to thongs in less than 100 years. During the years 1890 to 1899, underwear wa ....

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.... skirts still trailed on the ground at times, corsets were still too tight, but there were no more freak fashions and the Edwardian fashionable woman was not the model for others to seek to follow…” (Ewing, 137). As years went on underwear changed. Between the years 1990-1910, underwear had a face-lift. Cotton underwear was now a thing of the past, and silk and other products took over. Now the corsets and slips weren’t only used for looks on the outside, but also were made to look good underneath. Lingerie was becoming more and more popular. With lingerie being more politically correct, eroticism was now possible. The New look was st ....