Corset

2001.040.005

Corset
Materials
Description
Corset: Peach cotton and elastic corset with girdle. There are four elastic garters with metal clips. There are 14 inner hook and eyes. There are 10 hook sand eyes on the upper chest over the bosum with a twill tape tie at the lower edge. Down the front center bottom are 14 holes for 1/4" wide corset lace. Inside this is a thin cotton lengthening panel with one bone. There are 12 bones. On the bottom inside stamped in blue is "1104360936". The shoulder straps are 1/2" grosgrain ribbon with small buttons (3 are pink and 1 is white) so it could become strapless. The cups have peach floral lace in the top half and 6 stitched curved lines on the bottom half. The corset is woven cotton. There is a triangular elastic insert on either side of the lacing in bottom front . There is also a triangular elastic insert at the top back. On the inside bottom of the top right panel is a white label with blue "GOSSARD/REG/US PAT. OFF/MADE IN USA".
Geographic Notes
USA

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