Editing Corset (section)

=== Late 20th century ===
By the 1960s, the advent of [[Hippie|hippie culture]] and youth rebellion led the wasp-waisted silhouette to fall out of favor. Feminist activists protested against the restrictive nature of Dior's designs.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tomes |first=Jan |date=10 February 2017 |title=How Christian Dior revolutionized fashion 70 years ago |url=https://www.dw.com/en/the-new-look-how-christian-dior-revolutionized-fashion-70-years-ago/a-37491236 |access-date=2023-12-28 |publisher=[[Deutsche Welle|DW]] |language=en}}</ref> In 1968 at the feminist [[Miss America protest]], protestors symbolically threw a number of feminine products into a "Freedom Trash Can." These included girdles and corsets,<ref>{{cite journal |author=Dow, Bonnie J. |date=Spring 2003 |title=Feminism, Miss America, and Media Mythology |journal=Rhetoric & Public Affairs |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=127–149 |doi=10.1353/rap.2003.0028 |s2cid=143094250}}</ref> which were among items the protestors called "instruments of female torture".<ref>{{cite journal |author=Duffett, Judith |title=WLM vs. Miss America |date=October 1968 |journal=Voice of the Women's Liberation Movement |page=4}}</ref> The 1960s and 1970s saw the rise of popular [[fitness culture]], and diet, plastic surgery (modern [[liposuction]] was invented in the mid-1970s), and [[exercise]] became the preferred methods of achieving a thin waist.<ref name="Bass-Krueger-2019">{{Cite web |last=Bass-Krueger |first=Maude |date=2019-04-17 |title=Vogue's fashion encyclopaedia: The history of the corset |url=https://www.vogue.fr/fashion/article/vogues-fashion-encyclopaedia-the-history-of-the-corset |access-date=2023-12-28 |website=Vogue France |language=en}}</ref> The [[sexual revolution]] of the 1960s and 70s brought with it midriff-revealing styles like the [[crop top]], and many women chose to forgo supportive undergarments like girdles or corsets, preferring a more athletic figure.<ref>Bucci, Jessica (7 November 2015). [https://startupfashion.com/fashion-archives-history-crop-top/ "Fashion Archives: A Look at the History of the Crop Top".] Startup Fashion.</ref>

The corset has largely fallen out of mainstream fashion since the 1920s in Europe and North America, replaced by girdles and elastic [[brassiere]]s, but has survived as an article of costume. Originally an item of [[lingerie]], the corset has become a popular item of outerwear in the [[Sexual fetish|fetish]], [[BDSM]], and [[Goth subculture|Goth]] subcultures. In the fetish and BDSM literature, there is often much emphasis on [[tightlacing]], and many corset makers cater to the fetish market.

Outside the fetish community, living history reenactors and historic costume enthusiasts still wear stays and corsets according to their original purpose to give the proper shape to the figure when wearing historic fashions. In this case, the corset is underwear rather than outerwear. Skilled corset makers are available to make reproductions of historic corset shapes or to design new styles.

Since the late 1980s, the corset has experienced periodic revivals, all which have usually originated in haute couture and have occasionally trickled through to mainstream fashion. Fashion designer [[Vivienne Westwood]]'s use of corsets contributed to the push-up bust trend that lasted from the late 1980s throughout the 1990s.<ref name="Stevenson-2011" /> Those revivals focused on the corset as an item of outerwear rather than underwear. The strongest of the revivals was seen in the Autumn 2001 fashion collections and coincided with the release of the film ''[[Moulin Rouge!]]'', in which the costumes featured many corsets as characteristic of the era. Another fashion movement, which has renewed interest in the corset, is the [[steampunk]] subculture that utilizes late-Victorian fashion shapes in new ways. In the early 2020s, corset-inspired tops and dresses began to trend as part of the [[regencycore]] aesthetic, inspired by television series like ''[[Bridgerton]]'' and [[The Gilded Age (TV series)|''The Gilded Age'']]. These designs typically do not incorporate any form of boning.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ilchi |first=Layla |date=2022-04-29 |title=What Is Regencycore? A Look at the Fashion Trend Taking Over This Spring |url=https://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-features/regencycore-fashion-trend-spring-2022-details-breakdown-bridgerton-the-gilded-age-1235169193/ |access-date=2023-12-28 |website=WWD |language=en-US}}</ref>

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File:Corset-style tank top 2021.jpg|Corset-style top worn in 2021
File:Corset paris 1902.jpg|A corset from a 1902 French magazine
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