#2330    Corset    c. 1890  


Materials: Blue silk satin, ivory cotton floss, ecru bobbin lace; ivory silk ribbon, cream cotton lining, steel busk, stays and eyelets, ivory cotton laces.

Condition: Very good. Blue silk weft threads have worn in small two areas over each hip leaving just the vertical warp threads; bobbin lace has yellowed with age; laces are worn; very small tear in blue silk on lower front busk.

Measurements: B, 28"-33"; W, 19"-22"; Front L, 13"; Back L, 11".

Comments: A very unusual find: a wasp-waist gay 90s corset in a bright blue color.