Corset Collection (page 5)

France (19th century). Napoleon Bonapartes remains in church of Invalides, 1840. Engraving

Suffragette Ceramic Black Woman
A hand-painted suffragette ceramic figure of a black African woman, wearing a corset and short bloomers. In her right hand she holds a brown club, and in her left hand, a sign which reads

Advert for John Barker & Co, corsets 1909
Corset specialists, are showing their new range, Royal Worcester corsets. Corsets that are very narrow at the waist and cut longer over the hips. 1909

New Military Curve corsets, WW1
Royal Worcester Kidfitting Corsets, the new military curve corset, to ensure the new fashionable silhouette underneath gowns. Part of the military vogue in fashion during the Great War. Date: 1915

Advert for Royal Worcester new Military Curve corsets, WW1
Royal Worcester Kidfitting Corsets, the new military curve corset, to ensure the new fashionable silhouette underneath gowns. Part of the military vogue in fashion during the Great War. 1915

Advert for Le Gant corsets 1935
Le Gant made of the uncopyable youthlastic... Has infused a new tradition of elegance into modern corsetry everyone of these beautiful garments is a distinctive creation with its own peculiar charm

Advert for London Corset Co Ltd 1914
Advertisement for the London Corset Co Ltd of Hanover Street, London, targeting American Ladies and Others who are unable to visit Paris during the First World War

Warner Bros. Coraline health corsets

Dr Warners Coraline health corsets. " One trial satisfied me that I want no other"

Advert for Gossard underwear 1937
Revealing.... the new line of beauty. The camera, even more candid than usual, brings to light the secret of her slender loveliness

Advert for Wolsey womens underwear 1936
Wolsey aerobelt. Not just new, but a new principle! Not just cut, but Paris-cut! Not just Lastex, but a new exclusive Lastex fabric! Permanent tension two-way stretch that gives but never gives way

Advertisement for Kimballs Smoking Mixtures
A fashionable young lady wearing a corset, advertising Kimballs Smoking Mixtures Suit All Tastes

Business card design, woman in corset on sofa
Business card design, depicting a woman in a corset, sitting seductively on a sofa. Date: 20th century

Business card design, woman with pink scarf
Business card design, depicting a woman in a black corset and stockings, holding a long pink scarf. Date: 20th century

Business card design, woman in corset and stockings
Business card design, depicting a woman in pink lacy corset and stockings in front of a large round mirror. Date: 20th century

Advert for Gossard corsets 1937
Follow the line of beauty. That indefinable something! Soon as you wear a Gossard you know, beyond all question it is there

Advert for Barkers winter corsets 1916
Special bargsins in Royal Worcester corsets. Full figure corsets for sale. Available from Barkers Kensington High Street, London. Date: 1916

An advertisement for Corset Gaines tango corset
Advertisement for a corset designed for dancing and sportswear. Date: 10th December 1913

Advert for W. H. K &s corsets 1911
Fashionable corest for women, with narrow waist. 1911

Corset Department, Crowley-Milner Department Store, Detroit, Michigan, USA Date: circa 1940s

Alice de Tender - performer at the Eldorado Club, Paris
Alice de Tender - singer, dancer and actress - pictured here when a performer at the Eldorado Club, Paris, France in December 1903. Date: 1903

Saucy postcard - Lady in Underclothes
" Come as you are" you write to me. But you d think it absurd, if sometimes when that message came I took you at your word! (I wonder if the sender of the note would really mind too much)

General Picquart - Satire - Dreyfus Affair
Marie-Georges Picquart disguises himself by strapping on a tight corset. This cartoon is a sature on Picquarts position as head of the counter-espionnage bureau during the Dreyfus Affair

Jolly French beauty trying on her new hat. She seems to have forgotten to put her dress on first.... Date: circa 1890s

Parisian Lady in a Corset Skirt
The Underside of the Parisian A glamorous Parisienne wearing a fashionable corset-skirt Date: circa 1907

Mademoiselles Dargyl & Ananie de L Opera - Corsets
Mademoiselles Dargyl & Ananie de L Opera - Two French musical actresses, each wearing a fine whalebone corset. The card is entitled La Silhouette Moderne - The Modern Silhouette. Date: circa 1905

Arrested for wearing a corset advertising placard
" Why pick on me, officer? Its my guv nors idea!" A policeman is not sympathetic to the protestations of the beardy gentleman employed to parade in front of a Drapers shop wearing a corset

Spain. Peninsular War (1808-1814). Engraving. SPAIN. Madrid. Museo de Historia

Spain. Peninsular War (1808-1814). Letter of Napolon to his brother Jos頉, king of Espa񡮠 SPAIN. Madrid. Army Museum

Spain (1808-1814). Peninsular War. Napoleon flees to Spain. SPAIN. Madrid. National Library

Advert for Debenham & Freebody womens lingerie 1940
We have mastered the art of corsetry. This belt is specially designed to give nipped-in waist line and flat diaphragm made of triple-thread lastex with floral bastiste panels in front and back

Advert for Le Gant corsets for the larger women 1936
Le Gant of youthlastic stretches allways. For the larger women. Yes! Le Gant does give the woman of larger proportions perfect figure control

Orange Seller - Paris, France
Orange Seller - on a Paris street, France Date: circa 1901

Woman in traditional costume
A woman wears a corseted dress in the colours of the French Tricolour. She accessorises with red, blue and white flowers on her wrists, in her hair and attached to her dress. 1937

Advert for Dickins & Jones sale
Last week Dickins & Jones sale for corsets Date: 1915

Advert for Gorringes Luxury undies
Advertisement for womens Gorringes luxury corsets, angore and silk mixture. Date: 1937

Advert for Le Gant corsets
A gown, particularly a formal gown, was never more of a success than the corset worn beneath it. Perfect control with absolute is achieved by " Le Gant" Sold by Harvey Nichols. Date: 1937

Advert for Kestos lingerie 1932
Advert for Kestos corsets, a backless foundation for evening wear. 1932

Advert for Gossard corset
Gossard corset - a new diaphanous delight for the women who care... a slenderer, sleeker silhouette comes like magic atits tender tounch. Date: 1937

Advertisement for Oktis Corset Shields
An advertisement for Oktis corset shields, which prevent the snapping of a corset steel and double the life of your corset. Ideal holiday wear. How did we ever manage without them? Date: 1913

Berlei advertisement, 1953
A slender lady with an hourglass figure is fitted for some rather constricting looking foundation garments by a Berlei expert in an advertisement for the brand. Date: 1953

Lady in Harem pants draws amazed reactions
A rotund lady draws breath (it appears she has been wound in to a VERY tight corset!) as she ascends some steep stares, but also draws gasps of astonishment from three gentleman

Woman modelling underwear
A woman modelling underwear (brassiere, corset, suspenders and stockings) against a dark background. circa 1940s

Putting on a corset - with assistance
A lady requires some assistance in the tightening of the laces of her corset. The rather caustic caption reads: " Reducing the Surplus" !! Date: circa 1905

Slimmer Extraordinaire! Before & After
Before & After - the remarkable results of going on a diet and how it affects ones choice of corset.... circa 1909

Policemen & Corsets
Hello, hello, what are these three policemen doing outside a corset shop? Date: 1960s

Fitting a Corset
A young French lady is fitted with a fashionable corset Date: circa 1830

Male Corset / 1910
An elderly gentleman, desperate to regain the figure of his youth, has his valet lace him into a corset. Date: 1910

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