Fashion Revealed

A virtual collection of women's underclothes, fashion accessories, and history.

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Collection’s Highlight: Child’s Petticoat 

Petticoat, Late 19th Century, Flannel, Silk, L: 25in. The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York, Gift of Mary Boynton. N0089.1972. 

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From the BBC: How male and female suits got smaller and smaller

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►Corset Wednesday

"Scanned from stereoscope card, copyrighted 1899 by T. W. Ingersoll.

Original caption:

REDUCING THE SURPLUS. “NOW PULL HARD!”

A small waist between a full bust and ample hips, such is the shibboleth of fashion, and the poor girl that relies on her figure to make a good impression, is sorely put to it, if nature has denied her the shape of a wasp or if she has not learned to rely on physical exercise to model her frame. A vigorous walk of ten miles a day, supplemented by ten minutes of lung gymnastics, would do wonders for her.”

Source

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Accessory Set

1850s

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Summer Corset

1875

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Visit Original Link

Today’s episode: 10,000+ years of cosmetics history (in brief). Here’s a link to our notes and research.

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An 1870s to 1880s comfort maternity corset

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Found some lovely, lovely illustrations and other pictures in this wonderful book Victorian Secrets : What a Corset Taught Me about the Past, the Present, and Myself by Sarah A. Chrisman. 

You can purchase her book here

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1890 ca ‘Zwei Damen bei der Toilette, Paris’ ink and Pencil by Raphaël Kirchner by carlylehold on Flickr.

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Stays, between 1725 and 1775. 

Musée Galliera, musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris

GAL1920.1.1202 © Eric Emo / Galliera / Roger-Viollet

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Bra, cotton backed with nylon wadding in cups, c. 1962, British.

Manchester Art Gallery accession no. 1993.21

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Girdle, nylon and lycra, 1960s, British.

Victoria and Albert Museum accession no. T.291-1993

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Stays

1770s

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Underpinnings: Bustle, Corset, Chemise, and Drawers, ca. 1870-80s

via KCI

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Stockings (1939) by British Pathé

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Cotton sateen corset c. 1810-40

Accession Number: 1973-273-4a,b