Janis,

 

Can you describe in detail what is being stiffened or shaped?  Each location
and type of shaping/stiffening have different terms/lexicon.  Is it
permanent or just used to shape it while drying?

 

It could be:

 

Stay

Interfacing

Facing

Boning

Padding

Form

Clothes Tree

 

 

Sue

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From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
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Subject: [MUSEUM-L] Calling all Nomenclature experts!

 

Here's a test for you. What would you call an object that is made to go
inside a piece of clothing to shape and/or stiffen it? And what
category/sub-category would you put it in?

 

(If I knew the answer, I wouldn't be asking!)

 

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Janis Wilkens

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Levine Museum of the New South 

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