‘I Wear a Corset Daily | Answering Your Historical Corset Questions’ (Sources)

Written By V. Birchwood

Link to video: https://youtu.be/oKKa2MR4NV8

Sources:
https://archive.org/details/the-paris-e-xposition-universelle-1900-www.-etoile.-app/The+Paris+eXposition+Universelle+%5B1900%5D+%5BWWW.ETOILE.APP%5D.mp4

Netted corset: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/173654 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/173652

Stays: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/90398

Conical lacing: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/82450 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/82436

Stays timeline: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/157987 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/90458

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/90459

Jumps: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jumps_(clothing).jpg

MoMu - Fashion Museum Antwerp, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Bustle: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/157993

Crinoline: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/157055

Victorian Paintings: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DodgeVictorianWomanInWhite.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:YOUNG_WOMAN_WITH_FLOWERS.jpg

JULES FREDERIC BALLAVOINE, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Victorian photos: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anne_Agnes_Willoughby_in_riding_habit,_1860s.jpg

18th c. women in stays: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Woman_doing_Laundry_by_Henry_Robert_Morland.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Robert_Morland_(c.1716-1797)_-_A_Laundry_Maid_Ironing_-_N01403_-_National_Gallery.jpg

Riding horses: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Riding_Habit_Fashion_Plate_c1847.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Queen_Emma_in_riding_habit_(PP-96-4-004).jpg

Working women: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_laundry_maid_leaning_out_of_a_sash_window_to_wring_out_a_Wellcome_L0051347.jpg

See page for author, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean_Sim%C3%A9on_Chardin,_The_Kitchen_Maid,_1738,_NGA_41650.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean-Sim%C3%A9on_Chardin_-_Washerwoman_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

1860s corset: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/158002

1870s corset: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/158004

1885 corset: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/158180

1890 corset: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/158100

Corset - stays comparison: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/157938 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/90454

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