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2. 'a [straight] line that doesn’t allow you to see the body'
[has to regain composure and stop laughing before typing again]
Sure. Yep. Deffo. Nothing to see here. Not a boob on show, deeply unsexy straight lines all round.
(note nipples. We're coming back to that)
What they're misreading is the formal court etiquette of hoops being worn, a convention that continued even as waists rose, and which wasn't revoked until George IV's reign. That's all. No one has ever been brave enough to costume that look properly on screen, dammit!