O corset na moda ocidental: um estudo sociossemiótico sobre a constrição do torso feminino do século XVIII ao XXI

• Autor(a) principal: Jardim, Marília Hernandes
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/4658
• topic: Corset; Corpo feminino; Modelagem; Sociossemiótica; Semiótica visual; Corset; Feminine body; Shaping; Socio-semiotics; Visual semiotics; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::COMUNICACAO

This study investigates the feminine torso constriction obtained through the corset use, which presents a fundamental role on the feminine body conformation, and a pronounced function of transforming the social logic. Also, the silhouette configurations by him realized significantly alter the interaction between constricted bodies and other subjects. It is possible to postulate thus that the corset is an interactive subject, whose role is part of the social logic shaping, and not its reflex. From this point, the studied problem is the identification of the relation between the conformation of the silhouette and a consequent social interaction determination, arisen from the apprehension modes that surface from the body plastic endowed by the garment. Far from constituting a historical fashion problem, the use of constrictive lingerie present as a hodiernal topic, especially on the West, where significant efforts are devoted on the development of shaping objects, consumed by women from all ethnicities and social backgrounds. In order to understand the meanings that emerge from this complex and risky interaction between corset and body, it is necessary to seek the phenomenon origins on 18thcentury western fashion, when the corset use as an undergarment began. From this use, we purpose the identification of emblematic moments of such practice, as well as the ruptures on its continuity, designing to recognize, in those fractures, the specific roles assumed by corset and body, to categorize the transits between corset use continuity and discontinuity. For such, the study call on an extensive research corpus, formed by corset, crinoline and gown images collected from museum collections, as well as virtual stores lingerie photographs and images that can help on reconstructing the studied body tendencies, as advertising and painting reproductions. In the light of Landowski's socio-semiotic, Greimas's semiotic theory and Floch's and Oliveira's visual semiotics, we investigated the uses and apparel configurations, isolating the relations of complementarity between the roles played by the actors corset and body, which underlies the dominance of the first as body's addresser, as well as other relations between those two roles, which reveal a body leadership, important former of fashion and social surroundings passages