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Girdle that reduces waist and hipsNew hour-a-day girdle reducess waist and hips often 3 inches the very first week ! now at last you can wear the stylish, decoming clothes your heart desires - without worrying about an unattractive
Advert for J. Roussel womens underwear 1933Woman model wearing a black comfortable corset with lace bust. 1933
What People Are Wearing Underneath - Front pageModel wearing a flowery bra and girdle - two tones of pink on navy, with purple crepon shirt by John Craig. Date: 1966
Advert for Twilfit underwear 1928Girdles and corsets for women, English made and fully guarenteed. 1928
Village nuptials, 14th century.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Massard from French Costumes from King Clovis to Our Days, Massard, Mifliez, Paris, 1834
Berengaria, Queen of Richard I (d 1230)Berengaria, Queen of Richard I (d. 1230).. Handcolored engraving from Civil Costume of England from the Conquest to the Present Period drawn by Charles Martin and etched by Leopold Martin, London
Eleonora Gonzaga, Duchess of Urbino, 1543.. Chromolithograph from Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Altenecks Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century, Frankfurt, 1889
Camp follower from the 17th century, with lance and basket.. A mirror and keys hang from her girdle. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Altenecks Costumes
Advert for Bon Ton Girdles 1934Gentle persuasion to figure perfection. Bon Ton is the sure soltion of figure problem. If accentuation is needed to give you beauty of line
Advert for Gossard corsets 1937Follow the line of beauty. That indefinable something! Soon as you wear a Gossard you know, beyond all question it is there
Advert for J. Roussel underwear 1948A blonde bombshell model wearing the Roussel suspender belt garment, with bullet padding bra. 1948
Advert for Kestos lingerie 1936One brassiere for day or backless wear. Worn exclusively by the smartest women since its creation, the Kestos Brassiere has achieved a niche for itself unequalled by any other
Advet for Kestos panty 1935Two blondes model the skin- tight, boneless, seamless " Silicute" pantie-girdle by Kestos teamed up with Kestos bras. Date: 1935
Advert for Kestos Brassiere and GirdlesAdvertisement for Kestos Brassiere and Girdles Date: 1932
Berlei advertisement, 1953A 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
Ariels GirdleA light locomotive engine on four wheels, with carriages attached. Exhibited by W.B Adams, designer and patenter, during the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, 1851. Date: 1851
Advert for Gossard underwear 1948
C12th Male DressLabourer: Phrygian cap, hooded tunic hitched up, long stockings & short boots. Rich Jew: conical hat with brim, mantle pinned with a brooch, super-tunic, girdle & pouch. Date: 12th century
Lady Bends in CorsetA lady bends to pick up the soap tablet she has dropped - thus demonstrating the remarkable flexibility of her Guzzi girdle Date: 1928
Weight Lifters, portrait
Saxon Military Dress C8Anglo-Saxon king in martial habit wears a shirt of chainmail over a tunic & hose. His Armour Bearer wears a Phyrigian cap, hose & short tunic with a girdle. Date: 8th century
Lord & Knight C14ThKnight: cote-hardie & cape with dentate border (dagged), knightly girdle, dagger, piked shoes. Lord: cloak or mantle, cape with hood & super-tunic with side vent
English Lady & KnightsWoman: mantle, a kirtle with front lacing, girdle & pouch, ornamental fillet, coiled plaits & veil. Knights: mantle, various sleeveless fitted garments
Morning & Evening Dress 1814Morning dress: crimson velvet pelisse with front en militaire, lined with ermine & with matching caput; Evening dress: white satin with silver lace girdle & white fur tippet
Empire Line Revival 1910Directoire / Empire revival gown: high waist, draped fur- trimmed corsage, tasseled girdle, finely gathered skirt ornamented at the hem with Roman style embroidery
Afternoon Gown 1911High waisted Directoire or Empire line gown in lilac etamine & chiffon embroidered in gold & lilac wooden beads. N.B Cordeliere girdle & floating back panel
Tunic Dress / Doucet 1914Ornate yellow tunic dress: tango skirt with front split & train in a luxuriantly patterned fabric, translucent tunic with feathery trim drawn in with a tasseled girdle
Corsets at home 1925WHAT JOY TO BE FITTED FOR CORSETS AT HOME ! There is a NuBone Corsetiere near you who will call at your home at your convenience
Corset Belt Circa 1929A woman wearing a blue elastic corset belt with built in suspenders & a matching bra demonstrates how easy it is to bend while still enjoying maximum support
Coronation Habit C13ThKing in his Coronation Habit: long, highly ornate tunic with magyar sleeves worn with a buckled girdle, green mantle with decorative lining & soled hose
BLUNT / ANDROMEDA / 29 / 1849The constellation of Andromeda is that of a woman unclothed to the girdle, her arms extended, and each attached to a fragment of rock by a chain
Georgian Girls GriddleA group of young girls keenly watch as one of their number uses a griddle over an open fire while another stands by with a poker. Is it supper or a fortune telling custom?