Friday, March 6, 2015

Fashionable Corsets Among the Victorians

Adjusto corset.

Adjusto:  Non-Rustable: With Patented Reducing Bands

      Practical, stylish, comfortable, durable these words summed up tell you the story of the Adjusto. This matchless corset is the final result of years of study, research and scientific application of a thoroughly practical idea.
      The Adjusto has many times proven itself to be of inestimable value, not only as a reducing corset, but as a perfect abdominal support. Then, too, with the aid of the Improved Reducing Bands and Supporter Loops, the corset skirt is held down smooth and flat, uniformly reducing hips and upper limbs.
      Thousands of women the average, the slender, the stout never experienced the joy of real corset comfort until they wore the Adjusto.
      Moulding and shaping the form the Adjusto  the form the Adjusto way is the modern way, the correct way. Try it. Price $3.50.

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The changing silhouette of the female figure starting in 1860.

      "In this episode of EXPLORING NEVADA you'll take an undercover journey to discover the underwear secrets of fashionable women living during Victorian times in Nevada. With fashion-history expert Jan Loverin as guide, you'll travel to historic Bowers Mansion in Washoe Valley for the inside scoop on how a genteel lady of the times (as re-enacted by Paulette Grune of Sparks) donned her corset, hoop skirt and other unmentionables."

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