..of Lillie Langtry in the late 1880’s. She was rounded and full as the ideal of the day, with good skin as much was exposed. She had trained to the tightly cinched waisted corset through the 1860’s and ’70’s, so that by the 1880’s and 90’s, she had a teeny waist that could easily be corseted in the long late Victorian shape.
Covering the hips and under the arms, the late Victorian corset was ideal for someone like Langtry because it guided her curves into the “right places” (that men particularly liked), even as she gained weight around 1900.
(Photos; Langtry in the mid-1880’s in the corset of the day in evening wear)