Male Corsets (17th and 18th C.)- Curious Fashion History

In the early 17th century some men wore corset-like vests and waist cinchers to create a narrow waist to make their shoulders and chest appear wider. Fashion also called for men to wear slender

Men Wore Corsets, History Says

History of Corsets 1780-1912

Elegant and Structured: 1870's Gusseted Corset

An Appetite for Fashion Decadence: A Brief History of Stomachers – The Pragmatic Costumer

Stays – The Quintessential Clothes Pen

Revealing the iron corset

Bodies or Stays? Underwear or Outerwear? Seventeenth-century Foundation Garments explained. – Sarah A. Bendall

The Corset and the Crinoline. Chapter VII.

Making 18th century Stays for the Ideal Body Shape : Historical Undergarments

Grand Habit (III) fourth quarter of the 18th century

Shedding Light on a Dark Era: Baroque, Cavalier, and Puritan Fashions – The Pragmatic Costumer