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In the late 1940s and early 1950s, there was a brief revival of the corset in the form of the [[waist cincher]] sometimes called a "waspie". This was used to give the hourglass figure as dictated by [[Christian Dior]]'s "[[Christian Dior SA#The New Look|New Look]]". However, use of the waist cincher was restricted to [[haute couture]], and most women continued to use [[girdle]]s. Waspies were also met with push back from women's organizations in the United States as well as female members of the London Parliament as corsetry had been forbidden under rationing during World War II.<ref name=":0" /> This revival was brief, as the New Look gave way to a less dramatically-shaped silhouette.
In 1968 at the feminist [[Miss America protest]], protestors symbolically threw a number of feminine products into a "Freedom Trash Can." These included corsets,<ref>{{cite journal | author=Dow, Bonnie J. |title=Feminism, Miss America, and Media Mythology |journal=Rhetoric & Public Affairs |volume=6 |issue=1 |date= Spring 2003 |pages=127–149 |doi=10.1353/rap.2003.0028}}</ref> which were among items the protestors called "instruments of female torture"<ref>{{cite book|author=Duffett, Judith |title=WLM vs. Miss America |work=Voice of the Women's Liberation Movement |date=October 1968 |page=4}}</ref> and accouterments of what they perceived to be enforced [[femininity]].
Since the late 1980s, the corset has experienced periodic revivals, all which have usually originated in haute couture and have occasionally trickled through to mainstream fashion. Fashion designer Vivienne Westwood use of corsets contributed to the push up bust trend that last from the late 1980s throughout the 1990s.<ref name=":0" /> These revivals focus on the corset as an item of outerwear rather than underwear. The strongest of these revivals was seen in the Autumn 2001 fashion collections and coincided with the release of the film ''[[Moulin Rouge!]]''; the costumes featured many corsets as characteristic of the era. Another fashion movement, which has renewed interest in the corset, is the [[Steampunk]] culture that utilizes late-Victorian fashion shapes in new ways.
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