Think of a corset and your mind probably settles on something tight and uncomfortable.
Almost the antithesis of the stretchy pants we've all got used to in the pandemic!
Kathryn speaks to Dr Sarah Bendall from Australian Catholic University , an expert in early modern dress, how it was made and traded and how it differed between the sexes.
She's written a book about this that focuses on what women wore in the period from 1500 to 1800 called Shaping Femininity: Foundation Garments, the Body, and Women in Early Modern England.
As part of her research she recreated corsets - sewing them herself - to find out whether they really were as restrictive as the literature at the time - written mainly by moralising men - would suggest.
