Corset Cutting and Making: RevisedEdition

Corset Cutting and Making contains 19 historical corset patterns and 1 brassiere pattern dating from 1900 to 1920. These historical corset patterns are a goldmine of unusual styles and shapes ranging from fashionable corsets to maternity and nursing athletic and equestrian corsets.The corset patterns include: Nine Edwardian straight-front style corsets aka S-bend dated 1900-1907;One pre-World War 1 long line style corset dated 1911-1912;Five World War 1 era corsets including one for factory workers dated 1914-1918;One 1920s athletic corset;Three Childrens waists dated 1890-1920.These patterns have not been drafted from museum examples but are drafted from patterns which were published pre-1923. Each pattern is accompanied by a short historical background construction information and examples gathered from historical catalogs.