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Corset

1875-1899 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Pair of ladies corsets made from pale blue cotton broché with a darker blue floral pattern and trimmed at the top with white machine-made lace, through which is threaded a row of pale blue silk ribbon. They fasten at the front with a busk with five metal studs and loops with an impressed floral pattern and at the back are eight sets of white metal bound eyelets for an adjustment lace. The corsets are machine stitched and very lightly boned, possibly with steels. There is a tape waist-band stitched inside and the corset is finished at the top and bottom with tape. It is machine-stitched and it is not lined.

The corsets are short and the back and sides reach only from the bust to the waist. At the front they curve down to just below the waist where there are traces of elastic-webbing, which suggest that there were once blue suspenders. Swan-shaped silhouette.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Corset
  • Corset
Materials and techniques
Cotton broché trimmed with machine-made lace and silk ribbon, metal
Brief description
Pair of ladies corsets made from cotton broché trimmed with machine-made lace and silk ribbon, possibly made in England or Germany, 1875-1899
Physical description
Pair of ladies corsets made from pale blue cotton broché with a darker blue floral pattern and trimmed at the top with white machine-made lace, through which is threaded a row of pale blue silk ribbon. They fasten at the front with a busk with five metal studs and loops with an impressed floral pattern and at the back are eight sets of white metal bound eyelets for an adjustment lace. The corsets are machine stitched and very lightly boned, possibly with steels. There is a tape waist-band stitched inside and the corset is finished at the top and bottom with tape. It is machine-stitched and it is not lined.

The corsets are short and the back and sides reach only from the bust to the waist. At the front they curve down to just below the waist where there are traces of elastic-webbing, which suggest that there were once blue suspenders. Swan-shaped silhouette.
Dimensions
  • Waist circumference: 64cm (Note: Measured by Conservation)
  • Bust circumference: 88cm (Note: Measured by Conservation)
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Made in Wurtemborg Size [in black] 2' [number indistinct] (Printed on the white stick-on label with an orange-red border, on the lining of the left back)
  • '1 pr 14' (In pencil on the inside of the left busk)
Credit line
Given by M. Yanovsky
Collection
Accession number
T.97&A-1984

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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