Corsets and crinolines
Publisher: Routledge, 1954001: 7350ISBN: 0878305262DDC classification: 391.42 WAU Online resources: Click here to access onlineItem type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Corsets and Crinolinesis a study of the changing shapes of women's dress and how these were produced, how simple laced bodices became corsets of cane, whale-bone and steel, while padding at shoulders and hips gave way to the structures of farthingales, hoops and bustles. Added are contemporary tailors and dressmakers accounts, illustrations, index, a glossary of terms and materials, appendices on the repair and manufacture of corsets and crinolines.
Reprinted 2000
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface
- Acknowledgment
- List of Illustrations
- Bibliography Museum and Private Collections
- Chapter 1
- I Beginning of the Sixteenth Century to 1670
- i The Whaleboned Body
- ii The Farthingale
- iii References to Whaleboned Bodies and Farthingales from contemporary sources
- II 1670 to the end of the Eighteenth century
- i The Stays
- ii The Hoop Petticoat
- iii References to Stays and Hoop Petticoats from Contemporary Sources
- III Beginning of the Nineteenth Century to 1925
- i The Corset
- ii The Crinoline and the Bustle
- iii The Corset, Crinoline and Bustle - from Contemporary Magazines
- iv References to Corsets, Crinolines, and Bustles from Contemporary Sources
- Appendix I The Construction of Corsets
- II The Construction of Farthingales, Hoop Petticoats, Etc
- III Supports for Corsets, Crinolines, Etc
- IV Whalebone
- Glossary
- Index
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