36" bust / 18" waist

This corset is a transitional style bridging the late Victorian corsets of the late 1890s with the diagonal seaming of the early Edwardian corsets of 1901-03. This corset has no attached garters or evidence there ever were any. This makes me suspect this corset most likely dates to the late 1890s.

Constructed on the strait of grain with a total of 10 pattern pieces per side, five of which are gores (two bust, three hip). Fabric is a single layer of cream cotton jean embroidered with charming little pink flowers with light green leaves.  Seams are flat felled. Corset has a 1" cotton waist tape held in place with white cotton bone casings applied to the interior. 23 bones per side three of which are 1/2" wide side steels and two of which are horizontal bust bones intended to help round the bust.  Boning is a mix of steel and a non magnetic (likely baleen). The Center front, center back and wider side steels are of steel.

Center front length of 12.5" with a 12"  mildly dished busk. Center back length of 12.75" with 16 grommets per side unevenly spaced with the 8 grommets at the waistline being set closer together. Upper and lower edges are bound in cotton twill beneath the 1.5" wide beading lace which is on both the upper and lower edges. The lower edge lace features a pale peach silk ribbon fed through the channel. I believe this to be the original ribbon as it is broken and shattered in a few spots. the ribbon threaded through the upper lace trim appears to be silk as well but likely a late addition.