American
Further images
Corset of soft cocoa brown cotton twill, lined and trimmed with natural colored cotton twill, with cord-quilted patterns of straight and wavy lines; contrast stitching in pale orange thread, with floral motifs worked in chain stitch. Curved upper edge sloping down to shoulder straps; two gussets over each side of bust and channel for busk in center front; some boning still intact along center back; bone eyelets down center back; initialled "ED" in red cross stitch inside lower right front.
Very good condition. Busk sold separately.
Exhibitions
Exhibited in Fashioning the Body: An Intimate History of the Silhouette, Bard Graduate Center Gallery, New York, April 3-July 26, 2015; and Touch Me: Feeling Fashion, William Paterson University Galleries, Wayne, NJ, February 22–May 3, 2024.