#historical corsets
Corset made from yellow silk brocade and trimmed with white leather. It dates from around 1770 and was proberably made in Italy.
It forms part of the Fashion Collections of Leicestershire County Council.
This corset is available for study, by appointment, at the Collections Resources Centre in Leicestershire.
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Corset
Dominion Corset Co.
About 1910-1920, 20th century
Cotton coutil
M2009.41.12.1-2
© McCord Museum
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Corset, floral brocaded silk, silk ribbon, elastic.
Date: c. 1905
Country: England
Object Number: 98.37.1
The Museum at FIT
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Dating from1900 this Lightweight busk front corset is made from light brown sateen lined in cotton and over-strapped with fawn sateen. This garment heralds the coming fashion change for corsets to the straight front of the early 1900’s known also as the ‘Health Corset’. It has a single long straight busk as opposed to the then conventional spoon busk. Across the front are double crossed straps for added strength. It is moderately boned with whalebone and split cane supporting the back lacing.
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It’s National Underwear Day—This fashionable woman in the 1860s is wearing a chemise and drawers, a corset was gusseted and boned to give a full bust and hips and small waist, a hoop skirt supported a wide skirt, and several smoothing petticoats would also be added. Are you feeling cooler now?
Mannequin dressed in 1860s underwear including cap, chemise, corset, hoop skirt, drawers, stockings, and boots.
Woman’s corset, 1860s–1870s, United States
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c1890. Busk front corset made from cotton twill lined in fawn coutil and interlined with hessian. This corset is a Symington speciality and is called ‘The Pretty Housemaid’ and is advertised as the strongest and cheapest corset ever made. The corset was made and directly marketed at women in service and was one of the top sellers of its day.
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Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. A Reproduction Corset from the 1890s made by The Costume Project team.
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C. 1895
This busk front corset is typical of the beautifully designed styles of this period. Made from black lasting lined with white twill it features flexible corded hips and an intricate boning system involving forty two cane strips and four tempered steels down the back lacing. The corset is decorated with sky blue feather stitching. The cane boning allowed decorative stitching to be accomplished by the recently invented embroidery machine, and a skilled operative could safely pierce the cane strips without needle damage. The corset has a waist measurement of 22".
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1820s cotton corset
From the collection of Anton Priymak, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Corset of silk moire, trimmed with lace and embroidered with silk thread, 1854-1855.
From the collection of Anton Priymak, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Light blue silk corset with flossing, 1870-1885.
Accession number: 2013.616
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Look no seams! This rare specimen is a woven corset. I pulled this from our vintage corset collection. It’s not made from stitched patten pieces as corsets normally are, it was woven as one piece of fabric on a loom with slots for the bones. I was inspired to revisit our vintage corset collection after reading a great article about woven corsets on the V&A blog @vamuseum #historicalunderwear #corsetry #V&A #periodcorsetsvintagecollection #corsetmaking #corsetresearch #19thcenturyfashion #1880 #frenchwovenstays #historicbeauty #costumedesign #research
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