Corset
This corset is made of damask cotton with strips of whalebone as support and a black lace trim along the top edge. It laces up the back with silk lacing but it fastens with the metal studs and eyelets up the front.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 181/2006
- Category
- Decorative Art
- Collection Class
- Clothing and accessories
- Material
- cotton (damask)whalebonesilk
- Common Name
- corset
- Simple Name
- corset
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901)
- Production Town
- Watford
- Production Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Production Date
- c 1880
- Production Person Surname
- Mill
- Production Year Low
- 1875
- Production Year High
- 1890