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Description: | Burgundy satin corset with lace trim. The corset has a burgundy satin fabric on the outside, with neat, red machine stitching. The lining is in cream satin. There is some modern stitching around the busk, but it is unclear as to its purpose. There is a 5cm wide band of cream lace around the top edge. It has a small flower motif. The band has become loosely attached, probably due to age. There are two openings to the garment. At the front it has a opening busk with 4 clasp fastenings. These clasps were patented in c.1862. The busk is straight. The corset is very similar to those made by the Paris-based Madam Gashes - Surraute - a pioneer of the 'health' corset. Illustrations of her corset designs are almost exactly the same as this one. Gashes-Surrante was a corsetire, who had studied medicine. She wanted to design corsets that would aid the wearers health not harm it. Her designs try to leave the thorax free but still support the abdomen. This meant there would be no compression around the waist, which could be very harmful. She was responsible for the actual introduction of the straight fronted busk and the demise of the constricting curve at the waist, created by the spoon shaped busk. Unfortunately all her innovating work was undone by the women who wore her corset. They still practised tight lacing to achieve the desirable small waists. The straight front of the corset created a new silhouette, which became known as the 'S' shape. The corset sits under the bust and so pushes it up and the hips are thrown back. The corset is laced up at the back and it was this feature which made the ladies stick out so much at the back. The busk is metal, probably steel and the re-enforcing on the bodice is probably whale bone. | Format: | Costume | License: | http://www.stickii.co.uk/umis/termsandconditions.html#heriot-watt-rights | Publisher: | Heriot-Watt University Archive, Records Management and Museum Service, Scottish Borders Campus | Rights holder: | 46182 | Subjects: | costume and textiles | Temporal: | c1862 | Source: | Heriot-Watt University | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Format: | Costume | Go to resource |
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