Larger image of girdle

  

The Home Annual

1937, p73

Charnaux was one of the first firms to make a solid rubber girdle. It was a very early design, and had very lumpy seams and garters. It was also probably very hot, despite the rather attractively placed ventilation holes, but was claimed to allow much greater freedom of movement than the rigid corsets which most mature women still wore.

 

The Home

November 1934, p95

 

The rather dense piece of hype on the left appeared in the same issue of The Home magazine as the advertisement below. It is rather difficult to imagine who the advertisers thought it would appeal to.


What the well dressed sportswoman wore.

The Home November 1934, p67

 

Clearly the fashionable Lady would not be seen in the gym without her Charnaux. According to another report "No one on the stage would wear anything but a Charnaux".

Many rubber girdles were advertised as "reducing" girdles, but Charnaux kept quiet about this supposed virtue of rubber.

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