At 22:26 03/05/2006, you wrote:
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.
I believe crinoline, or sprung steel, was patented in about 1855/6
Suzi
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