腰部是女性区别于男性的又一性特征之所在,从解剖学上看,腰是胸与腹的连接部位,在这个部位,男性因强健发达的腹外斜肌、腹直肌和背扩肌,与相对窄小的骨盆构成的臀部、腹部相比,使其腰部在外形上不十分明显,特别是肌肉发达者和体胖者,更是难于区分;而女性的腰部则在丰满的胸部和肥硕的臀、腹部的对比之下,形成明显的凹陷,使这个连接部显得格外纤细,因此,这个男性所不具备的纤腰也就成了古今中外女性美的重要表现部位之一。在西洋服装史上,早在公元前2000～1400年的克里特文明中,就有使用紧身胸衣束腰来表现女性美的例证(图1);时隔三千余年后、到十六世纪,由于立 Waist is a sex distinguishing feature of women from men, from the anatomical point of view, the waist is the connecting part of the chest and the abdomen, in this part of the male due to strong and developed abdominal oblique, rectus abdominis and dorsal muscle , Compared with the buttocks and abdomen formed by the relatively narrow pelvis, the waist is not very obvious in shape, especially the muscular and obese people are more difficult to distinguish; while the waist of the woman is in the full chest and Fat hips, abdomen, contrast, the formation of obvious depression, so that this connection is particularly slender, therefore, the men do not have the waist has become an important part of the performance of ancient and modern women’s beauty at home and abroad. In the history of Western clothing, there are illustrations of the beauty of women using corset corsets as early as in Crete from 2000 to 1400 BC (Figure 1); after more than three thousand years, to the sixteenth century Because of legislation