The tailor cut
How Western women's dress of the 1700s and 1800s was cut, sewn and put on and how its silhouette changed, with corsets read from period sources and a skeleton study.
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Two surviving pockets, of about 1784 and 1799, are separate bags; a museum record says such pockets were tied on under the skirts. Each layer, shift to gown.
"Pocket" by Unknown maker — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pocket_MET_1996.2_CP4.jpg — CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
Sömmerring's 1793 treatise blamed stays for reshaped ribs and moved organs. A small 2015 study reported bent ribs in seven skeletons; breaks remain unproven here.
"Corset" by Unknown maker — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Corset_MET_CI39.18.1_F.jpg — CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
The Met's 1857 cage crinoline hangs steel hoops on cloth tapes. In French, the TLFi dictionary records the word first in 1829, for a horsehair and linen cloth.
"Effets du tourniquet sur les jupons en crinoline" by Honoré Daumier — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Effets_du_tourniquet_sur_les_jupons_en_crinoline._N%C2%B016,_G.2037(3).jpg — CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
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