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The Dark Garden is a murder mystery novel written by Mignon G. Eberhart. It was published by Doubleday, Doran & Co. in 1935. It was rereleased as a mass market paperback at least twice, first in 1944 by Bestseller Mystery Books, and in 1966 by McFadden. [1] [unreliable source]
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... Media in category "Corsetry" The following 2 files are in this category, out of 2 total.
Freda Cox wearing a liberty bodice in an early advertising photograph for Symington, published between 1908 and 1910. The liberty bodice (Australian and British English), like the emancipation bodice or North American emancipation waist, was an undergarment for women and girls invented towards the end of the 19th century, as an alternative to a corset.
Front Claps for corsets. A busk (also spelled busque) is a rigid element of a corset at the centre front of the garment. [1] Two types exist, one- and two-part busks. [2]Single-piece busks were used in "stays" and bodices from the sixteenth to early nineteenth centuries and were intended to keep the front of the corset or bodice straight and upright.
At the Great Exhibition in 1851, she was awarded the prize medal of "Manufacturer, Designer and Inventor" for her corsetry designs. The corsets from the Great Exhibition in 1851 are in the Museum of London. [1] In 1860, she became a member of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA). By 1864, she had filed ...
To achieve a low and slim waist, corsets were tightly laced and extended over the abdomen and down towards the hips. [4] A chemise was commonly worn under the corset, and cut relatively low in order to prevent exposure. Over the corset, was the tight-fitting bodice featuring a low waistline.
Woman's stays c. 1730–1740. Silk plain weave with supplementary weft-float patterning, stiffened with whalebone. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, M.63.24.5. [1]The corset is a supportive undergarment for women, dating, in Europe, back several centuries, evolving as fashion trends have changed and being known, depending on era and geography, as a pair of bodies, stays and corsets.
The Corsetry and Underwear Journal was a British corsetry and underwear industry trade magazine [1] of which Emily Yooll was the editor from 1935 to 1975 [2] and Edith Base was a formerly editor in 1950.