Inès Gaches-Sarraute

Inès Gaches-Sarraute 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.