Victorian corset flossing

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Posts about 1880’s corset written by Tea in a Teacup

1885-1887

Dating from 1900 this Lightweight busk front corset is made from light brown sateen lined in cotton and over-strapped with fawn sateen. This garment heralds the coming fashion change for corsets to...

Victorian Corset flossing detail

Detail of embroidery from a black front busk corset of 1875, of lasting, cotton twill, and Hessian. It is laced at the back and has a straight, four-stud, metal busk at the front. The metal busk was invented in 1840 and signalled a change from the simply shaped, detachable strips of bone or horn used in previous centuries. It was not until the 1860s that the metal busk fastening became generally used in Britain. This corset also has a double busk, a covered wide steel stitched underneath…

I had a fascinating day last Saturday visiting the Symington Collection to fondle original Victorian and Edwardian corsets. What can I say? I felt like a child in a sweet shop, surrounded by delights; drooling and desperate to sample all of it in the all too short allotted time. Suffice it to say that I […]