Corsetry Collection

HM Queen Mary (of Teck) - Queen of King George V
HM Queen Mary (of Teck) (1867-1953) - Queen of King George V - superb photographic portrait. Date: 1911

English Rose Corsetry advertisement
Advert for the new corselette from English Rose corsetry, exquisitely styled and entirely without bones. It is described as a corselette with wired

Underwear for 1962 drawn by Barbara Hulanicki
A lycra girdle with tapering side sections and black lace front panel on the right, and a black lace bra mounted on white both by Lily of France and excellent for magically transforming the figure

The full range of Corsetry Puns and Underwear Jokes on this humorous Christmas Greetings card with a clothing theme. Date: circa 1906

Annotated illustration warning about the dangers of tight laced corsets on the female body. Date: 1906

Harness electric corset - a boon to women of all ages
Mr C. B. Harness electric corset - a boon to women of all ages - The Medical Battery Co. Ltd - 52 Oxford Street, London (The Electropathic and Zander Institute). (3/3) Date: circa 1890s

Cinema advertisement for Unity Brand corsetry, early 1900s

New fabric that stretches three ways Vita-Flex was made of an exclusive process in which pure rubber was interwoven with fine cotton backing. Date: 1939

Advert for Royal Worcester corsets 1909
Figure that speak. Women wearing elegant straight-front corsets also known as the swan-bill. 1909

Young model in silky underwear 1935
Model in wearing silky corset with girdle. 1935

Advertisement for Berlei corsets -- two female models in a buggy. 1959

Louis XV Corset advertisement - Corset Leopold
An advertisement for a Corset Louis XV available from Corset Leopold of 34 Rue d Alger, Toulon, France. The text on the card translates thus

Advert for Royal Worcester corsets 1914
Slim silhouette of women wearing waist-line corsets. 1914

Advert for N D Eynede Paris corsetmarker 1909
Women wearing elegant corsets with drawstrings to the back to bring in the waist with lace edging. 1909

Advert for W. H. K. & S. corsets 1901
New desirable straight fronted corsets, combining symmetry and elegance with acme of comfort. 1901

Wartime underwear article, Britannia and Eve magazine, 1940
Page from Britannia and Eve magazine, September 1940, reporting on various types of foundation garments to ensure a controlled figure under clothing

A portly lady is laced into her corset by her maid Date: 1921

Just like Mother! A little girl tries on a corset
Just like Mother! A little French girl tries on a corset and checks out the result in an ornate full-length gilt-edged mirror with the aid of a footstool. Date: circa 1905

Advert for Barkers of Kensington corsets 1914
Women wearing autumn to early winter collection of Royal Worcester Kidfitting waist-line corsets. 1914

Advert for Madame Bellanger corsetmarker 1909
Advertisement for Madame Bellanger, Edwardian women wearing straight-front corset giving no curving to the figure at the front and a bell shape to the back. Date: 1909

Advert for Madame Bellanger corsetmarker 1908
Advertisement for Madame Bellanger, Edwardian women wearing drawstring corsets to bring in the figure. Date: 1908

Advert for Madame Bellanger corsetmarker 1912
Advertisement for Madame Bellanger, Edwardian women wearing long-line corsets, with straight-front giving no curving to the figure, and also a bra with uplift and fastener to the front. Date: 1912

Advert for Madame Bellanger corsetmarker 1911
Advertisement for Madame Bellanger, Edwardian women wearing long-line corsets, with straight-front giving no curving to the figure, and also a bra with uplift and fastener to the front. Date: 1911

Advert for Madame Bellanger corsetmarker 1910
Advertisement for Madame Bellanger, Edwardian women wearing long-line corsets, with straight-front giving no curving to the figure. Date: 1910

Advcert for C. P. ࠬa Sir讥corsetmarker 1909
Fashionable silhouette figures, showing women wearing long-line corsets, high hip-line, straight-front giving no curve to the front and bell shape to the back. 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

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

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

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

Advert for Kestos lingerie 1935

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

Kestos underwear advert 1934

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