Inès Gaches-Sarraute

Inès Gaches-Sarraute (1853–1928) was a French physician and corsetière. She was the inventor of the 'health corset', later called the 'S-bend' corset.

Life

Concerned at the gynaecological effects of corsets on women, Gaches-Sarraute began pamphleteering on the subject in the 1890s. Her novel design of corset, introduced in her 1900 book, helped bring about a change in corset fashions in the early twentieth century.

Works

• L'Exposition d'hygiène urbaine. 1886.
• Etude du corset au point de vue de l'hygiène du vêtement de la femme. G. Masson, 1895.
• L'hygiène du corset. 1896.
• Le Corset: Étude physiologique et pratique. Paris, 1900.

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