Waist Binder1894

Not on view

Wide textile support belt with channeled black fabric body, brown leather edging, and silver buckles at each end, with flat black straps extending upward

Abdominal support belt with wide white quilted panel and black elastic straps, printed with 'Strozona Fielders Patent' text, medal illustrations, and award text reading 'Paris 1894.'

Close-up detail of a textile or garment showing radiating pleats in dark gray fabric with a subtle sheen, meeting a flat black woven panel at a diagonal seam, with a narrow gold-toned trim visible at upper right.

Cream fabric corset with brown twill binding and vertical stitched channels, interior label printed with 'STROZONA FIELDERS PATENT,' two medallion illustrations, a trade mark emblem, and text reading 'Awarded Four Gold Medals and Cross of Honour Paris 1894'

Title: Waist Binder
Place Made: England
Date Made: 1894
Medium: Silk satin, quilted, cotton-twill belt and trim, and metal buckle
Dimensions: Overall: 35 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. (89.535 x 13.97 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Suzanne A. Saperstein and Michael and Ellen Michelson, with additional funding from the Costume Council, the Edgerton Foundation, Gail and Gerald Oppenheimer, Maureen H. Shapiro, Grace Tsao, and Lenore and Richard Wayne
Accession Number: M.2007.211.648
Classification: Costumes
Collecting Area: Costume and Textiles
Curatorial Notes: The quest for a narrow waistline was not exclusive to women; in the early nineteenth century, some men also wore boned and tightly laced corsets. Because vests were short, modified waist cinchers or firmly stiffened inner belts continued to be worn throughout the century to minimize unsightly bulges that blemished the streamlined effect of fine tailoring.
Selected Bibliography: Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: Deux Siècles de Mode Européenne, 1700-1915. Paris: Arts Décoratifs; Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Delmonico Books-Prestel, 2013.
Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Delmonico Books/Prestel, 2010.
Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: Europäische Moden, 1700-1915. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Prestel, 2012.

Waist Binder1894

Not on view

Title: Waist Binder
Place Made: England
Date Made: 1894
Medium: Silk satin, quilted, cotton-twill belt and trim, and metal buckle
Dimensions: Overall: 35 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. (89.535 x 13.97 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Suzanne A. Saperstein and Michael and Ellen Michelson, with additional funding from the Costume Council, the Edgerton Foundation, Gail and Gerald Oppenheimer, Maureen H. Shapiro, Grace Tsao, and Lenore and Richard Wayne
Accession Number: M.2007.211.648
Classification: Costumes
Collecting Area: Costume and Textiles
Curatorial Notes: The quest for a narrow waistline was not exclusive to women; in the early nineteenth century, some men also wore boned and tightly laced corsets. Because vests were short, modified waist cinchers or firmly stiffened inner belts continued to be worn throughout the century to minimize unsightly bulges that blemished the streamlined effect of fine tailoring.
Selected Bibliography: Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: Deux Siècles de Mode Européenne, 1700-1915. Paris: Arts Décoratifs; Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Delmonico Books-Prestel, 2013.
Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Delmonico Books/Prestel, 2010.
Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: Europäische Moden, 1700-1915. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Prestel, 2012.