corsetery

noun

1. (uncountable, usually)The practice of using (wearing) or making corsets.

   “The Company also agrees to give the corsetiere the benefit of it's own sales plans and training of salesmanship and corsetery. At the same time, the corsetiere agrees to purchase a demonstration line, which she uses in her own work ...”

   “The innovation of the moment in corsetery is BIENJOLIE GRECIAN-TRECO REDELACD Corsets The all year round corset for the girls and women who lead active lives, and insist on ease, comfort and cleanliness as well as ...”

   “Dressed to Kill: The Medical Consequences of Corsetry.”

   “Women of wealthy mercantile families asserted their status by imitating the styles from royal courts and helped spread the fashion of corsetry throughout cities and towns all across Europe. In subsequent centuries, the corset was modified ...”

   “The modern bra, as a concept, has its origins in corsetry (so does shapewear, which you'll learn more about in chapter 3).”

2. (uncountable, usually)Corsets and their accoutrements; items made by a maker of corsets, taken collectively.

   “I have been made painfuly aware of the angles of a slender figure left without the help of that wisp of corsetry that would make all the difference in the world. I have walked behind a lady with fleshy shoulders, even as you have done , and ...”

   “Q. What kind of merchandise do you sell? A. Ladies specialties such as hosiery, underwear, corsetery, gloves.”

   “[...] fields of textile applications such as lace and curtains, sports and casual wear, lingerie and corsetery and in technical textiles such as automotive interior packing, [...]”

   “Revealingly, eating disorders were related to (or aggravated by) the wearing of corsetry. Consequently, corsetry was closely linked to the debilitated feminine ideal: […]”

   “.[...] the details of their working relationship should remain suitably discreet. In 2018, June Kenton, director of Rigby & Peller, the long-time suppliers of corsetery and lingerie to the Queen, [...]”