Corset

Museum number:
2-63480
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020063480
Alternate number:
3978 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032
Description:
Waist Cincher: Cut in 6 gores, laced together front and back (front lacings missing). Lavender silk taffeta, tan cotton lining, steel bones. Top. Materials: silk taffeta, cotton Techniques: taffeta Colors: Lavender, tan Dimensions: 11 1/2” long center back 30” wide at top Remarks: Machine sewn. Dates from before 1875, belonged to owner of 3976-7. Worn, faded.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
United States
Verbatim coll. place:
U.S.A
Culture or time period:
United States Historic
Materials:
Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Corsets
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Nonnative US and Canada (except California)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Corset, accession number 2-63480, described as Waist Cincher: Cut in 6 gores, laced together front and back (front lacings missing). Lavender silk taffeta, tan cotton lining, steel bones. Top. Materials: silk taffeta, cotton Techniques: taffeta Colors: Lavender, tan Dimensions: 11 1/2” long center back 30” wide at top Remarks: Machine sewn. Dates from before 1875, belonged to owner of 3976-7. Worn, faded.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Corset, accession number 2-63480, described as Waist Cincher: Cut in 6 gores, laced together front and back (front lacings missing). Lavender silk taffeta, tan cotton lining, steel bones. Top. Materials: silk taffeta, cotton Techniques: taffeta Colors: Lavender, tan Dimensions: 11 1/2” long center back 30” wide at top Remarks: Machine sewn. Dates from before 1875, belonged to owner of 3976-7. Worn, faded.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Corset, accession number 2-63480, described as Waist Cincher: Cut in 6 gores, laced together front and back (front lacings missing). Lavender silk taffeta, tan cotton lining, steel bones. Top. Materials: silk taffeta, cotton Techniques: taffeta Colors: Lavender, tan Dimensions: 11 1/2” long center back 30” wide at top Remarks: Machine sewn. Dates from before 1875, belonged to owner of 3976-7. Worn, faded.

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