Corset cover, 19001910
American
Cotton
Purchase, Hoechst Fiber Industries Gift, 1982 (1982.316.8)
American
Cotton
Purchase, Hoechst Fiber Industries Gift, 1982 (1982.316.8)
This corset cover reveals the ideal "monobosom" of the turn-of-the-twentieth-century silhouette. The support for the bust is set very low and there is no use of gussets beneath that might serve to articulate them as two separate entities.



















