Corset

Clothing/Dress/Costume

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Genesee Country Village & Museum

Name/Title

Corset

Entry/Object ID

G2010.015

Description

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.

Collection

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

Category

Youth
Historic Costume

Clothing/Dress/Costume Details

Article of Clothing/Dress/Costume

Corset

Clothing Sex

Female

Textile Details

Color

White

Made/Created

Date made

1825 - 1845

Ethnography

Culture/Tribe

American