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Spanish
Brown silk voided velvet trimmed with metallic bobbin lace
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French
Silk, linen, leather, wood, baleen
(Baleen! Cool!)
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Jeanne Lanvin (French, 1867–1946)
Ivory and black silk taffeta trimmed with pink and black silk velvet rosettes
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Paul Poiret (French, 1879–1944)
Black silk and wool blend with white leather appliqués and white fur trim
Silk
That last one is my favorite, I think.
3 comments:
A lot of corsetry from Victorian times and before was made from whale bones and baleen and such. Busks (the flat things that were stuck in the front of a corset to make your front all flat and compressed) were sometimes made with ivory and I think it was, like, a romantical thing to have someone carve stuff on your busks? i could be making that one up. I wrote a paper on the history of male corestry when i took a history of fashion class at smith my second year of college.
also: Those victorians sure loved them a nice badonka-donk, didn't they? whenever i see a bustle like that, that's all i can think of.
my favorite is the dress from 1925. so pretty!
i know whalebone was common (i assume that's why they still call it boning. haha.) but i didn't know they used baleen, too. neat! and yes, the victorians sure loved their asses. how do you sit down in something like that?
Oh my god! This is amazing... I have now officially found a new favorite way to waste time...
I posted some of my favorites at Gaycondo, though they are more modern than yours I think you will still enjoy them...
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