g

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l Bin
Twil

FULL BUST - 28" Does not include seam allowance

"
1 /4

1889-1900 Ferris Health Waist UNDER BUST - 25" Two layers of pink cotton twill fabric

Double-Welt Seam
Panels attached with flat-felled seams
WAIST - 20" 1/4" binding on top and bottom edges of pink cotton twill tape
Machined buttonhole
s may be seen
1/4" Twill Binding
10
1/8" cotton cording (external channels, and in between twill layers) on backview/underside
of strap. STRAP
HIP EXPANSE - 31" (With hip lacings closed) LEFT

Genesee Country Village & Museum

1889-1900 Ferrish Health Waist
3/8" metal bones at back sides (internal bonding chanels),and CF left lower panel Pattern drafted from extant original
Ⓒ 2022 Brandon W. Brooks UNDERSIDE
Genesee Country Village & Museum
Two-hole celluloid buttons - attached by loops of twill tape, running between layers

Grain Line Indicator

Susan Greene Collection

Metal grommets at CB, side-front lacing, and underneath each button

Susan Greene Costume Collection

Birdseye View
- 1/4" total diameter = 1" 1/4"
Twill
Bindin
Two Double-Welt Seams
g

- 3/16" hole diameter

G2022.19.001 STRAP 10 CORSET BODY 8 & 9

din g
ill Bin
1/4" Tw

Brown rib
around ma
slits, then
1889-1900 Ferrish Health Waist

bed fabric
stitched do
chined bu
10
Genesee Country Village & Museum
Susan Greene Collection

, folded
tthole
Pattern drafted from extant original

wn.

Double-Welt Se
Ⓒ 2022 Brandon W. Brooks

1/4" Twill Binding STRAP

LEFT
TOP SIDE

am
Birdseye View Birdseye View Birdseye View BUTTON Birdseye View Birdseye View Birdseye View Birdseye View Birdseye View Birdseye View
Two Double-Welt Seams Two Double-Welt Seams Two Double-Welt Seams Two Double-Welt Seams Two Double-Welt Seams Two Double-Welt Seams Two Double-Welt Seams Two Double-Welt Seams Two Double-Welt Seams
1 /4
" Tw
ill Bind
ing

2 right 1c 2 3 5 5 6a 8 9
1a & 1b 2 3 4 4 6a 7 7 8

1/8" cotton cording

1/8" cotton cording
1/8" cotton cording
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ill Bindi

TOP

g
1/4" Tw

Bindin

1/8" edge from internal boning channel

Top edge of CF upper left panel is bound by twill 1 /4
"T
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tape, while lower CF left panel is not bound.

Twill
lB
in d

1/4" Twill Binding

TOP
9
in g

1/4"
g

in the seam, looping through button hole at

din

Twill Tape running between layers, secured

ill Bin

TOP
" Tw
1 /4

1/4" Tw
ill Bind
ing
TOP 1 /4
LEFT
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1889-1900 Ferrish Health Waist
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2
lB wil
lB

TOP
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TOP TOP
1/4" Tw g g
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ding
Genesee Country Village & Museum
Susan Greene Collection

TOP

grommet
TOP
Pattern drafted from extant original

SLOT
1/4" Twill Binding
BUTTON LEFT
Ⓒ 2022 Brandon W. Brooks

1889-1900 Ferrish Health Waist

TOP TOP
1b 3 4 6a 8
Genesee Country Village & Museum

5 7
Susan Greene Collection
Pattern drafted from extant original
Ⓒ 2022 Brandon W. Brooks

1a
LEFT LEFT

Do u b
LOWER PANEL LEFT LEFT LEFT LEFT
1889-1900 Ferrish Health Waist 1889-1900 Ferrish Health Waist
LEFT 1889-1900 Ferrish Health Waist

1/8" edge from internal boning channel

le-We
1889-1900 Ferrish Health Waist 1889-1900 Ferrish Health Waist 1889-1900 Ferrish Health Waist

1c
UPPER PANEL Genesee Country Village & Museum Genesee Country Village & Museum
Genesee Country Village & Museum Genesee Country Village & Museum
1889-1900 Ferrish Health Waist Genesee Country Village & Museum Genesee Country Village & Museum Susan Greene Collection Susan Greene Collection

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1/4" Twill Binding

Susan Greene Collection Susan Greene Collection
LEFT
Double-Welt Seam

Genesee Country Village & Museum Susan Greene Collection Susan Greene Collection Pattern drafted from extant original
Ⓒ 2022 Brandon W. Brooks Pattern drafted from extant original
Ⓒ 2022 Brandon W. Brooks
Pattern drafted from extant original
Susan Greene Collection Pattern drafted from extant original

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Ⓒ 2022 Brandon W. Brooks Pattern drafted from extant original
Ⓒ 2022 Brandon W. Brooks
BUTTONHOLE PANEL Pattern drafted from extant original
Ⓒ 2022 Brandon W. Brooks Pattern drafted from extant original

FRONT VIEW Ⓒ 2022 Brandon W. Brooks

Ⓒ 2022 Brandon W. Brooks

Double-Welt Seam

Double-Welt Se
RIGHT

Double-Welt

Double-Welt Seam
Double-Welt Seam

1/8" cotton cording

1/8" cotton cording
Double-Welt Se

Double
g
rding
Double
1/8" cotton cording

Double-Welt Seam
n cordin
Double-Welt
rding
rding

tton co
1/8" cotton cording
1/8" cotton cording

Double-Welt Seam
1/8" cotton cording
1/8" cotton cording
1889-1900 Ferrish Health Waist

1/8" cotto
tton co
tton co

-Welt S
-Welt S

Seam

1/8" co

am
Genesee Country Village & Museum
Susan Greene Collection

1/8" co
1/8" co

Double-W

eam
Seam
eam

am
Pattern drafted from extant original

Double-Welt Seam
Ⓒ 2022 Brandon W. Brooks
1889-1900 Ferrish Health Waist
Double-Welt Seam

Double-Welt Seam

Genesee Country Village & Museum

Double-Welt Seam

Susan Greene Collection

elt Seam
Pattern drafted from extant original
Ⓒ 2022 Brandon W. Brooks

3/4" external channel

ng
ill Bindi
1/4" Tw
FOLD

3/4" external channel

1/4" Twill Binding

TOP
Double-Welt Seam

1/4" Twill Binding

Double-Welt Seam

SLOT

1/8" cotton cording

1/8" cotton cording

1/2" Boning Channel for 3/8" removable metal bone

TOP

1/8" cotton cording

1/8" cotton cording

1c 9
BUTTONHOLE PANEL TOP BACKVIEW
LEFT

l boning channel
BACKVIEW
1/4" Tw

1 /4
ill Bindi 1889-1900 Ferrish Health Waist

ding
RIGHT ng

" Tw
Birdseye View
TOP

1/4" Twill Bin

Genesee Country Village & Museum

ill
Two Welt Seams

1/8" edge from interna

Susan Greene Collection

Bin
din
Pattern drafted from extant original
Ⓒ 2022 Brandon W. Brooks

g
6a
Welt Seam SLOT
FOLD

SLOT
1889-1900 Ferrish Health Waist Neighboring panels are detached

7
Genesee Country Village & Museum below line.
Susan Greene Collection

8
Pattern drafted from extant original
Ⓒ 2022 Brandon W. Brooks
Edges are turned in and sewn down.
BACKVIEW
LEFT

Double-W
6b BACKVIEW

6b
1889-1900 Ferrish Health Waist
LEFT
Genesee Country Village & Museum
Susan Greene Collection 1889-1900 Ferrish Health Waist

elt Seam
Pattern drafted from extant original

LEFT
Ⓒ 2022 Brandon W. Brooks
Genesee Country Village & Museum
Susan Greene Collection

Do u b
1889-1900 Ferrish Health Waist Pattern drafted from extant original

1 1/8" Panel with 1/2" Boning Channel. Diagonal Slot Opening at Top for 3/8" Metal Bone
Ⓒ 2022 Brandon W. Brooks

Double-Welt Seam

Double-Welt Se
between each button, looping through

Genesee Country Village & Museum

Double-Welt Se

le-We

Double-W
Susan Greene Collection
secured at binding and by stitching
Twill Tape running between layers,

Double-Welt Seam
Pattern drafted from extant original

Double-Welt Se
Brown ribbed fabric, folded Ⓒ 2022 Brandon W. Brooks
Double-Welt Se
Double-Welt Seam

Double-Welt Seam

Double-Welt Seam

around machined butthole

Double-Welt Se

lt Sea
Double-Welt Seam

slits, then stitched down.

Double-W

Double-W
buttons at each grommet

Double-Welt Se

Double-Welt Seam

elt Seam
m
am
am
5/8" wide fabric strip - no bones

elt Seam

elt Seam

am
am

am

Double-Welt Seam
Double
am
FOLD

al boning channel
BUTTON

Twill Tape running between layers, secured

-Welt
by fabric strip stitching, looping through

Seam

1/4" Twill Binding

1/8" edge from intern
buttons at each grommet
1/8" cotton cording
1/8" cotton cording
1/8" cotton cording

1/8" cotton cording

1/8" cotton cording

OM
1/8" cotton cording
1/8" cotton cording

BOTT

3/8" removable metal bone

3/8" removable metal bone
M

1/8" cotton cording

1/8" cotton cording
1/8" cotton cording
1/4" Twill Binding

TO
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T
ill Bin

O
1/4" Tw

B
BOTTOM
ing
Bind
5/8" wide fabric strip - no bones " Tw
ill
1 /4

1/4" Twill Binding

FOLD

1/4" Twill Binding

g
ing
n cording
n cordin
on cord

BOT
1/8" cotto

1/8" cotto
1/8" cott

TOM
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in
nd
Bi

BOTTOM
ll
1/4" Twill wi
"T
BOTTOM
BOTTOM BOTTOM
Binding 4
1/

BOTTOM

1/2" External Boning Channel for

1/2" External Boning Channel for
BOTTOM 1/4" Twill
Binding

1/4" Twill Binding

1/4" Twill Binding 1/4" Twill Binding
1/4" Twill Binding
BOTTOM
BUTTON
1/4" Twill Binding
Upper and lower CF left panels attached at
Machined buttonholes may
bottom edge by binding.
be seen on backview of
panel/inside of corset.
Double-Welt Seam

Double-W

Double
-Welt S
elt Seam

eam

Double

Double-Welt Seam
Double-W
-Welt
Seam

elt Seam

1/4" Twill Binding

BOTT
OM 1/4" Tw
ill Bindi
ng

BOTTOM
1/4" Twill Binding
Pattern drafted from extant original
BOTTO
Brandon W. Brooks Ⓒ 2022
M
1/4" Tw
ill Bindi
ng BOTTOM