Corset
1815/1825
FIDM MUSEUM & GALLERIES
Los Angeles, United States
Corset of white cotton sateen with cording and stitched channels for stays; shoulder straps cut in one with reverse of corset are tied at front; center front channel for busk with vertical cording at each side; bust cups comprised of three corded godets; below each bust cup is stitching which alternates between horizontal rows and curved rows to create raised waist effect; multiple diagonal channels for boning at front and reverse; center front bottom of corset with two bound eyelet holes; godet at each hip; center back with twelve bound eyelet holes for lace-up closure; top edge, shoulder straps and bottom edge bound with cotton twill band; interior corset of cotton sateen; channels for boning have slit at one end bound with button hole stitching for insertion of stay; small cotton pad at center front interior neckline; original drawstring and string at PL should strap.
Label: none
Date: 1815-1825
- Title: Corset
- Date Created: 1815/1825
- Location Created: United States
- Physical Dimensions: CB: 14″
- Provenance: Gift of Rosalin Dyer
- Type: Corset
- Photographer: Brian Sanderson
- Rights: © FIDM Museum & Library, Inc. Image made available for limited non-commercial, educational, and personal use only, or for fair use as defined in the United States copyright laws. Users must cite the author and source of the image as they would material from any printed work, and the citations should include the URL “www.fidmmuseum.org”. For publication or press requests, visit http://www.fidmmuseum.org/about/rights-and-reproductions/ or email imagerights@FIDMmuseum.org.
- Medium: Cotton sateen and cotton cording
- Object ID: 2008.926.1
- Bibliographic References: Kevin L. Jones and Christina M Johnson. FABULOUS! Ten Years of FIDM Museum Acquisitions, 2000-2010. Los Angeles: FIDM Museum Publications, 2010.
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