Corsets 1830-1850 History Notes Book 18

By Suzi Love

This book shows how corsets changed to both provide support and also fit well under clothing to give a fashionable silhouette. Corsets started being a fashion item, rather than simply underclothing to be hidden. Romantic Era women's fashionable corsets.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Suzi Love
• Release date: May 30, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005979317

Suzi Love

I now live in a sunny part of Australia after spending many years in developing countries in the South Pacific. My greatest loves are traveling, anywhere and everywhere, meeting crazy characters, and visiting the Australian outback.I adore history, especially the many-layered society of the late Regency to early Victorian eras. In and around London, my titled heroes and heroines may live a privileged and gay life but I also love digging deeper into the grittier and seamier levels of British life and write about the heroes and heroines who challenge traditional manners, morals, and occupations, either through necessity or desire.Tag Line- Making history fun, one year at a time

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CORSETS 1830-1850

CORSETS 1830-1850

HISTORY NOTES BOOK 18

Suzi Love

Suzi Love

Contents

1. Introduction

2. 19th Century Purple Silk Corselet

3. 19th Century Mid Black Corselet

4. 1820-1839 ca. Brown Corset Bird Embroidery

5. 1820-1840 ca. Hand-Embroidered Wedding Corset,

6. 1830 Corded Cotton Corset

7. 1830 Corset with Busk

8. 1830 Buff Canvas Corset

9. 1830-1835 White Cotton Corset

10. 1830-1835 ca. Tan Corset, American.

11. 1830–1839 White Cotton Corset

12. 1830-1840 ca. Cotton Quilted Corset

13. 1833 Cotton Corset American

14. 1835 Corset, English.

15. 1835 Cotton and Whalebone Corset

16. 1839-1841 Well Shaped Corset

17. 1840 Boned Linen Corset

18. 1840s Cotton Corset American

19. 1845 Brown Corset With Busks.

20. Corset Citations

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Introduction

The name stays probably comes from the French estayer meaning to support. The word corset, which comes from the French word corps for body, had been in use centuries earlier, though often with not quite the same meaning. By the beginning of the 19th century when these undergarments took on more shape and form, the word corset was generally used instead of stays .

During the 1820s, fashions changed from the loose and flowing Regency Era or Empire style gowns and the waistline lowered back to almost the natural position. Towards the mid 1800s, breast cups were added to corsets to give more support and breast comfort. Corsets were lengthened to the hip and gussets added in both the bust area and over the hips. Therefore corsets had more