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corset
A Dictionary of Business and Management
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2006
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corset 1. A restriction of the movements of currency exchange values imposed by certain formal market mechanisms.
2. A government restriction on the growth of bank deposits and thus indirectly on bank lending and the money supply.
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 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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CORSETS ARE A CINCH SEATTLE DESIGNERS' TIGHT-FITTING BUSINESS EXPANDS.(Life and Arts)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 8/7/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...company a boost. Period Corsets, a Seattle company founded...with a report on all the corset-inspired looks designers...10 percent of Period Corsets' business is from...the writer who explored corset-inspired fashions for...cotton model from Period Corsets. "Once I had struggled...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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CORSETS CAN CLINCH THE OUTFIT.(LIFE-STYLE)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 2/7/2004; 700+ words
; ...an outergarment. Corsets and corset-inspired looks were...that they look like corsets, and Betsy Johnson's corset-topped dress was...lace. Second, ``corsets minimize the waist...mysterious aura to a corset because it's typically...
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FROM CORSETS TO CONSCIOUSNESS.
Magazine article from: WWD; 9/28/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...century: the Hose Supporter Corset; Warner's Rust-Proof Corsets, reinforced with rust-proof...and the straight-front corset, which creates the "Kangaroo...in back. The boom period of corsets deflates in the Twenties...
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 "Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)")
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The Corset Queen; RECORD WOMAN: The Scot who brought the Victorian bonecrusher into the 90s.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); 4/27/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...by making her own corset. And now her business...the world. But her corsets are a far cry from...ages." Emma makes corsets from size 6 right...underneath. The cupped corset is just that - with...so I made my own corset. "After that...Emma now makes corsets that are meant to...
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The Corset: A Cultural History. (Of Corset Matters).
Magazine article from: Washington Monthly; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...the dangers of lacing corsets too tight and some advised not wearing a corset at all. Steele found...journals such as The Corset and Underwear Review...produced and peddled corsets. "By the early nineteenth...small and medium-sized corset manufacturers were women...
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Alternately enslaving or enticing, corset's popularity has gone up and down for centuries.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 1/2/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...included a significant chapter on corsets. Her fifth book was on fetishes, which again included corsets. She mounted a corset exhibition at the fashion institute...studying the subject, her book on corsets has been published. The earliest...
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Trs sexy? Corset is
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 8/8/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...tight than cosy. The corset has been copied and...nor are they real corsets. You're basically...range of boned lace corsets - at a mere GBP 200...of your life. AP's corsets are made by a corset-maker who has been...
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 "Daily Post (Liverpool, England)")
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Curves in fashion as corsets make a big comeback; off the PEG.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England); 4/1/2002; 700+ words
; ...the waist in. it's not a proper corset. Corsets also support the shoulders and back...woman. Topshop has a butterfly lace corset for pounds 25 and a pink gingham corset for pounds 22. Try teaming corsets with faded jeans to make the look...
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RETURN OF THE CORSETS Get the look the stars love . . . but without all that pain and suffering
Newspaper article from: Evening Times; 9/25/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...pulling-in power of a corset. And now corsets are high fashion...get ideas. But are corsets bad for you? "If you wore a corset for long periods...Getting rid of their corsets was a statement...more in control. A corset is an expression...
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 "The Star (South Africa)")
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It's a corset, but not as your granny knows it; Taming the tum, cross-dressing or making a fashion statement. Kanina Foss finds there are many reasons for men to lace up.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Star (South Africa); 8/11/2009; 700+ words
; ...South African men wear corsets for two reasons: They...cross-dressers. Most corset-wearing cross-dressers...lacing themselves into corsets to achieve an hour...Early variations on corsets led to an appointment...who made him a proper corset in smoky blue fabric...
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Corset
Book article from: How Products Are Made
...The English word corset presumably comes...French cors. At first corsets were made of two...sides and back. The corset also accompanied...woman's backside. Corsets changed with fashion...Health effects of the corset European women throughout...wore tightly laced corsets that were ...
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Corsets
Book article from: Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages
Corsets The corset, a tightly fastened...changed so often, corset designs changed as...eighteenth century corsets had become sophisticated...died because their corsets were tied too tight...one of the popular corset styles was the Corps...
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corset
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...nineteenth-century corset separated the breasts...the end of the century corsets produced the sinuous...critics argued that the corset caused a number of health...humourists satirized the corset. Tight-lacing has...the century. Though corsets left the fashion mainstream...
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The Warnaco Group Inc.
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
...Warner ’ s comfortable corset spread, sales soared at an...redesign and improve their corsets with considerable success...successful was the Coraline Corset line, which was manufactured...identified the four most popular corsets in the U.S. as Warner corsets...
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Brassiere
Book article from: How Products Are Made
...term coined in 1937, corsets were the only support...whalebones, the one-piece corset was made popular by Catherine...replaced by steel rods. The corset design changed to accommodate...During this period, corsets were lengthened to produce...type, the top of the corset dropped low, often ...
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