Arts: Design: Fashion: Corsetry

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Sites listed here will focus on primarily non-commercial information about corsetry design.

Sites with main focus on online sales of ready-to-wear corsets will NOT be listed here, and belong in Shopping/Clothing/Undergarments/Girdles_and_Corsets.

Covers a wide span from the Victorian ladies' corset to their modern incarnation as fashion clothing.

More widely, includes any garment that compresses or restricts the motion of the body by means of stiffened fabric laced tight, and garments made to emulate the appearance of true corsets.

Sites that only deal with the strictly historical aspects of corsetry belong in the linked Living_History category.

Sites listed here will represent manufacturers of corsetry.
NB Online sales sites of ready made corsets do not belong here, and should be sent to Shopping/Clothing/Undergarments/Girdles_and_Corsets.
Sites for manufacturers of lingerie belong in Business/Consumer_Goods_and_Services/Clothing/Undergarments_and_Sleepwear/Lingerie.

For makers of individual crafted corsets who show galleries of work, construction details or historical information.

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Butterick Pattern History - Article describing the founding of the scaled paper pattern company in 1863 and its evolution during the 20th century.
Deliberately Concealed Garments Project - The Textile Conservation Centre at the University of Southampton explores the folk tradition of concealing clothing in the fabric of buildings. Includes a database of garment finds in the United Kingdom.
Fashion-Era - Pauline Weston Thomas and Guy Thomas place costume alongside the social history of an era, focusing on fashion from 1800. Includes undergarments, haute couture and British royal fashion.
Historical Costumes by Bjarne Drews - Photographs of reproduction costumes, primarily from the Renaissance, Baroque, and Regency periods. Closeups of handmade lace and embroidery.
Historical Events - Advice and critiques on historical costumes.
The Costumebase - Access over 3500 pictures that depict period costume, fabrics and fashion accessories: paintings, prints, fashion plates, and photographs of extant items.
The Ladies Treasury of Costume and Fashion - An ezine of 19th and 20th century costume and needlework resources, offering articles on period dress and related social history, plus free patterns based on original ladies' books and magazines.

Usenet alt.history.costuming - news: - Google Groups

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