Young Renaissance Woman. To try to reduce breasts, bizarre natural ingredients were used in the 1500s
Women have always taken great care of the beauty of the breasts, symbol of femininity par excellence.
While it is true that plastic surgery, an often decisive but decidedly invasive solution, is a recent invention, the same cannot be said for remedies soft , mostly natural based, of which the manuals of all time abound.
For centuries, in fact, plants and flowers , suitably and wisely mixed together, perhaps with the addition of some additional elements, they have made up the main ingredients of many beauty recipes , including those to keep the breasts tall, young and firm.
But what was done for the volume ?
In the absence of prostheses and so on, either we were satisfied with what Mother Nature had more or less generously given, or we acted to slightly improve the situation, but without expecting miracles.
Unlike the current fashion, which offers "bombastic" breasts, for most of the Renaissance period the trend was to show off rather small and chaste breasts , at least in certain environments.
This means that in order to try to reduce too bulky A sides, judged to be not very elegant and refined, applications of coratella were used. of hare and mutton leg pith , ingredients that, if used consistently, apparently had the ability to reduce the volume of the pectorals.