Pad, 1880s-1890s, side view, worn as bustle pad

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Creator

Unknown

Date Created

1880s-1890s

Subject

Costume; Underwear; Underwear and accessories for shaping and supporting; Underwear (lower body); Bustles; Bustle pad; Hip pad

Description

1880s-1890s. Cream cotton twill pad, either used as bustle pad or hip pad, tied to the waist with cotton twill tape.

A wide crescent-shaped pad, filled with horsehair and sewn to a length of cotton twill tape as a waistband. Its relatively thin profile, flexibility, and shallow curve at the top edge make it fit the body equally well if worn in back as a bustle pad for the slimmer late 19th century styles of skirt support, or as one of a pair of hip pads from the same period. Machine-sewn and hand-sewn.

Extent

Width: 26.7 cm / 10.5 in.
Depth: 10.2 cm / 4 in.

Provenance

Gift of Philip Marston

Museum Number

15.2

Publisher

University of New Hampshire Library

Medium

Cotton twill, horsehair

Contributor

Astrida Schaeffer, photographer/curator

Date Digitized

3-7-2019

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Comments

The Irma G. Bowen Historic Clothing Collection digital catalog was produced by the UNH Library Digital Collection Initiative, supported in part by a grant from the Mooseplate program and New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. Additional funding provided by the E. Ruth Buxton Stephenson Memorial Fund.
Photography copyright, Astrida Schaeffer.