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Corset

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Entirely hand-stitched corset made of white fine linen. Lined with jean. Neatly corded midsection, on the diagonal, worked in medium blue thread, lighter in some places. Double gores for fairly large bust, hip gores. Busk channel with opening inside; similar ones for bones at the opening edges. Bone eyelets. Straps attach at the front with tapes, probably not original. The waist between eyelets is 17” - seemingly an impossible size and it leaves a good 8” agape in the back on the smallest mannequins. The shoulders are wide by comparison.

G2005.043

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

Adult, Female

Historic Costume

Corset

Female

Linen

Jean

White

1820 - 1830

American

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