Sample Foundation garment or girdle; William Skinner and Sons Nylon fabrics; 1946
date: label: date made
content: 1946
name: label: maker
content: William Skinner and Sons
notes: label: Description
content: Sample Foundation garment; made of William Skinner and Sons nylon satin and nylon netting; 1946. Rose pink woman's foundation garment; all in one bust to hip, made of nylon satin and nylon netting in 1946. Fabric made in Holyoke, MA.
label: Description
content: Used as an application of T-9665. Flat-felled seams covered wtih a pink twill tape on interior and hem. Six nonadjustable length metal garters with nude elastic straps. Princess seams with open embroidery chain stitching. Pale pink ribbons in between nylon netting layers under cups. Metal closure and metal adjustments for grosgrain ribbon straps. Darts on cups, gusset center front with stretch nylon. Side hem is serged and topstitched with a zig zag. Garters attached with a machine stitched X. Fifteen hook and eye metal closures left side. Stretch pink nylon on side waists. Nylon netting with no stretch on cups. Netted piping at top of bust. No underwire.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Holyoke
label: Associated Place
content: United States: New Jersey, Allentown
topic: label: web subject
content: American Textile Industry
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: American Silks
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content: American Textile Industry
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of William Skinner and Sons
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T09666.000
label: catalog number
content: T09666.000
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Corset
label: Object Name
content: Foundation Garment
label: Object Name
content: girdle
label: Object Name
content: woman's
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: stretch knit satin; knitted net (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: pink (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: nylon; metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 23 1/4 in x 36 in; 59.055 cm x 91.44 cm