Corset curiosities

Corsets must rank with foot-binding in “not made by or for women” fashion history. But the search for wasp waists and swan-curve backs did call up the ingenuity of Victorian engineers – and some benighted attempts to make these armatures more healthy – or less devastating. Consider: “Electric corsets” of the late 1870’s claimed to…

Curiosities - City of Corsets

Contents

Fashion

Under Bust 'Vintage' Corset - Gallery 58

Curiosities - City of Corsets

The S-curve Such Eternal Delight

curiosities Archives - Joya Life

Fashion

Contents

Curiosities - City of Corsets

Synthetic Whalebone Underbust Corset

Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #86 - Do you ever feel the need to change lyrics, when performing live, which may be problematic in 2020, for example a

Antique Late Victorian X-Ray Of A Woman's Torso Altered By Wearing A Whalebone Corset Medical Scientific 5x7 Greeting Card

Corset (Stays), 1740–60, American, linen, leather, whalebone, Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Jason and Peggy Westerfield Collection, 1969, front 2009.300.3330a–d - The Dreamstress

Review: Undressed: A Brief History of Underwear exhibition - Girl Museum