Corset bodice
Category
Costume
Date
1800 - 1825
Materials
Cotton
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1350124
Summary
Corset bodice - Made from faded blue jean with peach velvet trimming and fastening with 7 pairs of eyelet holes. It is corset bodice - Made up from other garments - there is a sewn up pocket across the left front and traces of stitch lines down the front as well as different types of jean. For details of the construction see 'Workwoman's Guide' plate 11, fig. 22 (reprinted facsimile by Bloomfield Books and Publications, 1975, First Edition 1838. (female)
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade