LizzieMaine
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The thing with glamour/advertising photos is that they seldom show the garments as-worn. It was more common to wear the knickers *over* the girdle/garter belt than under, simply because it was easier to deal with bathroom eventualities that way -- but photos taken for the purpose of modeling corsetry tended to show it the other way around so as to display all the girdle's many features. Either that or all those catalog gals were going commando.
There was an ad campaign for Spencer Corsets, c. 1939, which showed the "before" photo looking like the way an ordinary woman would look in her underwear, as realistic a depiction of such as I've ever seen in an ad, and the "after" photo was of the perfectly-arranged-and-airbrushed model in her new Spencer, looking sleek and streamlined without a bump or a wrinkle. Studio Technique was with us long before Photoshop came along.
There was an ad campaign for Spencer Corsets, c. 1939, which showed the "before" photo looking like the way an ordinary woman would look in her underwear, as realistic a depiction of such as I've ever seen in an ad, and the "after" photo was of the perfectly-arranged-and-airbrushed model in her new Spencer, looking sleek and streamlined without a bump or a wrinkle. Studio Technique was with us long before Photoshop came along.