Does anyone know when the busks with clasps came into use? From the
reading I have been doing, it seems as if the "busk" referred to in 16c
costuming was a solid piece of wood or whalebone, rather then two seperate
pieces that clasped together.
Those soft pre-1830s corsets still have one-piece busks, and the 1850s ones
have the two-piece ones. So the change must have come sometime in between
them, probably as steel became more common. Sometime after 1850 petticoats
go from starched cotton and corded cotton to spring steel.
CarolynKayta Barrows
dollmaker, fibre artist, textillian
www.FunStuft.com
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