Steam-moulding of corsets during the manufacturing process helped create a curvaceous contour.
"Developed by Edwin Izod in the late 1860s and still used in the 1880s to create elegant corsets, the
procedure involved placing a corset, wet with starch, on a steam heated copper torso form until it
dried into shape." -Lucy Johnstone, curator of fashion from 1800 to 1914 at the V&A
1861- American Civil War begins and ends in 1865
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