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Corset cover, 1900–1910
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.

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"Corset cover [American] (1982.316.8)". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/20sil/ho_1982.316.8.htm (October 2006)

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