Object: Corset
Retailer:
Strouse, Adler Co.
(American)
Date: 1900-1905
Medium: Black cotton sateen, pink satin, and black lace
Country: USA
Credit Line: Gift of The Strouse, Adler Company
Object number: 85.80.20
DescriptionBlack cotton sateen corset embroidered with delicate sprigs and trimmed with pink satin ribbon and black lace; strapless, boned waist cincher with pointed waist; two sections with CF metal bar, loops, studs, CB lacings
Label Text:This fashionable straight-front corset shapes the body into a voluptuous “S curve”—pushing the breasts forward, pressing in the stomach, and arching the back.
Exhibitions:
- Femme Fatale: Fashion and Visual Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Paris
- The Corset: Fashioning the Body
- Seduction