Corset
A corset is a body covering undergarment (clothes worn under others).
It is made in many forms.
- A tight-lacing corset is a common form used today.
- "Stays" are an old form, which were used from about 1500 to after 1860
- An orthopaedic corset supports the back of an injured person.
Corset Media
A drawing of a luxury hourglass corset from 1878, featuring a busk fastening at the front and lacing at the back
Pair of stays, c.1780s. Fashion Museum, Bath, England.
X-ray of a woman in a corset
Eugène Atget, Boulevard de Strasbourg, Corsets, Paris, 1912
Woman's corset (stays) c. 1730–1740. Silk plain weave with supplementary weft-float patterning, stiffened with baleen; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, M.63.24.5.
Polaire was famous for her tiny, corseted waist, which was sometimes reported to have a circumference no greater than 16 in (41 cm)
Group of five corsets: late 19th and early 20th century Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation
Other websites
Media related to Corsets at Wikimedia Commons
