Digital Collections

Corset

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Entirely hand-stitched white jean or coutil. Brass eyelets, heavily corded especially at ribs; split breast cups; hip gores. Busk channel is accessed by a vertical slit at the top, inside and secured with a tie (missing) through a pair of stitched eyelets. Straps cut off and the cut edges finished with more twill tape. PW cotton tape cursorily attached to shoulder straps to outer corners, with one twisted.

G2010.015

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

Youth

Historic Costume

Corset

Female

White

1825 - 1845

American

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