Guêpière (clothing)

The Guêpière (of French GUEPE "wasp") is a waist and hips encloses, corset-like bodice belt , which by the New Look Christian Dior promoted in the late 1940s narrow wasp waist brought forth. The Guêpière was developed in 1942 by the French fashion designer Marcel Rochas .

It differs from the similarly built torselette by the pronounced hip bend, which was an essential feature of the silhouette typical of the New Look .

literature

• Ingrid Loschek : Reclam's fashion and costume lexicon. 5th edition Reclam, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-15-010577-3 , p. 221.

Web links

• Marcel Rochas: Father of The Guepiere , contribution to Partial Coverage
• Simple beauty: Rochas , article on Elle.de
• Guêpière , blog post with photo series from Italian Vogue