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1876 ‘Queen Bess’ Silk Corset By Worcester Company, American. #VictorianFashion #VictorianEra #Corset #Worcester

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1876 ‘Queen Bess’ Corset By Worcester Company, American. Made of silk, bone, and metal. Named ‘Queen Bess’, this corset was awarded the bronze medal at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876 and was patented in 1877. A well documented piece, it is unique in its design, which has been carefully constructed to support the wearer’s outer garments. The straps would assist in keeping the corset in place and hinder any shifting due to the heavy fabrics, and the bustle roll at back would ease any strain the wearer might experience from the excessive weight of the skirt. Credit Line:Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of E. A. Meister, 1950 Accession Number:2009.300.3496a–e

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1876 ‘Queen Bess’ Corset By Worcester Company, American. Made of silk, bone, and metal.via Metropolitan Museum New York City, U.S.A. metmuseum.org

Corsets 1850-1880 History Notes Book 19 Towards the end of the 1800s, corsets changed to give a fashionable silhouette and be a decorative fashion item. Tight lacing helped give a narrow waist and a feminine form under clothing while decorative corsets became desirable fashion items. Victorian corsets for small waists and fashionable silhouettes. Corsets during the Victorian Era, or late 1800s, tightened to give tiny waists and fashionable silhouettes.

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Are You A Reader or Writer of Victorian History? Corsets 1850-1880 History Notes Book 19 #Corsets #VictorianEra #Fashion

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Reader or writer of Victorian History? Corsets 1850-1880 History Notes Book 19. Victorian Era Corsets Gave Fashionable Silhouettes As Well As Being Decorative. Towards the end of the 1800s, corsets changed to give a fashionable silhouette and be a decorative fashion item. Tight lacing helped give a narrow waist and a feminine form under clothing while decorative corsets became desirable fashion items. Victorian corsets for small waists and fashionable silhouettes. Corsets during the Victorian Era, or late 1800s, tightened to give tiny waists and fashionable silhouettes. https://books2read.com/SuziLoveCorsetBook19

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1885 Three Piece Side Saddle Riding Habit With Mother Of Pearl Buttons. #Victorian #Riding #Fashion

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1885 Three Piece Side Saddle Riding Habit. Double breasted boned jacket with notched lapel, mother of pearl buttons, sleeve gathered at shoulder, over- skirt with side hook & eye closures, button and loop, fall front leggings, leather stirrups, braided trim. via suzilove.com Whitaker Auction whitakerauction.smugmug.com

1885 Three Piece Side Saddle Riding Habit. Double breasted boned jacket with notched lapel, mother of pearl buttons, sleeve gathered at shoulder, over- skirt with side hook & eye closures, button and loop, fall front leggings, leather stirrups, braided trim. via suzilove.com Whitaker Auction whitakerauction.smugmug.com
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Reader or Writer of Victorian History? Want to know what went under the dresses? Corsets 1850-1880 History Notes Book 19 #Corsets #VictorianEra #Fashion #nonfiction

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1890 Machine Stitched Brown Twill Corset, England or Germany. #Victorian #History #Corset

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1890 Cotton Twill Corset, England or Germany. Machine stitched with front hooks and back lacing and made in two parts. Brown corset with the bones covered with a darker cotton twill, black fabric covered busks and a trimming of black machine-made cotton lace. Lined with white cotton twill and the top and bottom are bound with reddish brown tape. The front fastens with a busk and the backs are provided with metal eyelets for a lace. The corset is hip length, curving to a rounded point in the front and less deeply at the back. The bones are close-set and splayed out at the bust and hips, and at the tops are trimmed with fancy stitching in cream. There is a band of dark brown cording at the top, covering the breasts. At the waist there is a V-shaped band in darker brown stitching. With metal fastenings. Source – http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O351699/corset-unknown/

1890 Cotton Twill Corset, England or Germany. Front hooks and back lacing. Cotton twill, machine-made cotton lace, lined with cotton twill, boned and metal. via suzilove.com Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK. collections.vam.ac.uk.
1890 Cotton Twill Corset, England or Germany. Front hooks and back lacing. Cotton twill, machine-made cotton lace, lined with cotton twill, boned and metal. via suzilove.com Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK. collections.vam.ac.uk.
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Victorian Era Corsets Gave Fashionable Silhouettes As Well As Being Decorative Fashion Apparel. #Corsets #Victorian #Fashion

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Towards the end of the 1800s, corsets changed to give a fashionable silhouette and be a decorative fashion item. Tight lacing helped give a narrow waist and a feminine form under clothing while decorative corsets became desirable fashion items. Victorian corsets for small waists and fashionable silhouettes. Corsets during the Victorian Era, or late 1800s, tightened to give tiny waists and fashionable silhouettes. https://books2read.com/SuziLoveCorsetBook19

Towards the end of the 1800s, corsets changed to give a fashionable silhouette and be a decorative fashion item. Tight lacing helped give a narrow waist and a feminine form under clothing while decorative corsets became desirable fashion items. Victorian corsets for small waists and fashionable silhouettes. Corsets during the Victorian Era, or late 1800s, tightened to give tiny waists and fashionable silhouettes. https://books2read.com/SuziLoveCorsetBook19
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When Corsets Saved Lives. #Victorian #Corset

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When Corsets Saved Lives.

During the Victorian Era, the tight lacing of corsets became known for damaging women’s bodies. However, the whalebone used to stiffen corsets was also a protector of the chest and rib area.

1833 Morning Post: HATTON-GARDEN. ATTEMPTED MURDER. George Bailey, a youth about seventeen, was charged with having attempted to murder Mary Prendergast, a young woman, by stabbing her with a large knife. It appeared in evidence that on Thursday morning, last, about five o’clock, the Prisoner, who sells fish in a basket near Portpool-lane, Leather-lane, Holborn, was standing before his basket when the Prosecutrix asked him the price of his fish. He told her, and she refused to purchase, but laughed at him and jeered him.. . . . In the course of the evening the Prosecutrix was passing by, when the Prisoner rushed upon her with a knife which he uses to cut up the fish and, while in a great passion, he pluinged the knife several times at her heart, and the last thrust the point of the knife dug into her clothes, and would have entered her body had it not been that the bone of her stays prevented it …

1837 The Standard: MARLBOROUGH-STREET. – AN UNNATURAL SON – Alfred Grant, a lad about nineteen years of age, of sullen aspect, was brought before Mr. Dyer, charged with having attempted to stab his own mother . . . James Grant, the brother of the prisoner, about sixteen years of age, said the prisoner came home to Grafton-street, Soho, on Monday afternoon, and some words having ensued between him and his mother, he seized a knife and made a stab at her. Fortunately the bone of his mother’s stays turned the point of the knife …

1841 The Morning Post: Catherine Connor, the person alluded to by the last witness, and who is in a state of pregnancy, deposed that she kept a fruit stall opposite to the Phoenix public-house and that on seeing the young man so savagely treated, she made use of the expersions just named, when Hill called her a ——–, and kicked at her violently. Fortunately for her, she received two of the worse kicks aimed at her on the bone of her stays, otherwise they would, she had no doubt, have proved most serious to her from the situation she was then in.

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Corset Styles 1700s-1900s, including Jane Austen’s lifetime.  Box Set Of Corset Books 14-21 Gives Complete Picture. #JaneAusten #Georgian #Regency #Corsets #Victorian

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What was fashionable for outer wear in Jane Austen’s times? Different names in different countries: Pelisse, Redingote, Or Walking Dress. #Regency #Fashion #JaneAusten

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What was fashionable for outer wear in Jane Austen’s time and in past centuries? Different names in different countries: Pelisse, Redingote, Walking Dress, Carriage Costume etc. Pelisse, Redingote, Or Walking Dress: History Notes Book 5 By Suzi Love.  http://books2read.com/suzilovePelisse

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The Pelisse or Redingote was essentially a coat or robe like garment worn both indoors and out. Worn indoors open to reveal a dress, the outdoor version was made of heavier materials and of darker colors than the type worn indoors. The name comes from the term ‘riding coat.’ In the Georgian Era, Redingotes were worn by men, women and children when outdoors and especially as part of a riding costume by both sexes.

In England, the Pelisse was the main sort of fashionable outerwear, or coat, for women in the Regency Era, or Jane Austen’s times. Though this sort of coat was popular from the late 1700s until around 1850. In the early 1800s, this sort of Empire style coat reached the hip or knee but around 1810 the Pelisse lengthened to become a full length coat. Around 1812, the Pelisse often had a broad, cape-like collar with fur trim and thanks to the Napoleonic Wars and an avid interest in all things military, a Pelisse took on a military look with epaulettes and braiding very popular.

While the terms Redingote and Pelisse are often used interchangeably, Pelisse and Walking Dress and Carriage Costume were the names used in English Fashion Plates, whereas French Fashion Plates refer to the longer style of coats as a Redingote and the shorter shoulder capes worn by military men as a Pelisse.

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Are You A Jane Austen or Regency Era fan? Corset Styles 1700s-1900s in Box Set Of History Notes Corset Books 14-21 #JaneAusten #Georgian #Regency #Corsets #Victorian

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