I forwarded this on to Alden - she's not in today but she'd probably be able
to give you some more information.

Genevieve Ellerbee
Associate Registrar
DAR Museum
Washington, D.C.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Deb Fuller [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 10:49 AM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: Corset misconceptions
>
> I'd love to see her research because I've found very little from this
> period on
> corsets. A friend of mine at the Sully plantation has also been
> researching on
> the time period and come up with very little. It's driving us nuts.
> There's the
> one from the Kyoto collection and I've seen a couple of others like this
> unboned lace-up mini-corsets as shown in the picture on this page:
>
> http://locutus.ucr.edu/~cathy/dress/und.html
>
> And if you look at this portrait of two ladies by Rouget in 1811, the lady
> on
> the right clearly does not have a corset on. Granted these women are
> French and
> they tended to be the most...uh...freely attired of the time period.
>
> (scroll down to about the middle of the page)
> http://www.songsmyth.com/daydresses.html
>
> Deb
>
>

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