corset
date: label: date made
content: ca 2009
name: label: retailer
content: Olverita's
notes: label: Description
content: Cream cotton with applied fabric flowers; round neck; straps; rounded hem; boned front with two rows of cream spiral braid surrounding stay casings; front has twelve loosely-woven pink, purple, orange and yellow dyed fabric flowers, gathered slightly and flattened to surface in a cascade design; some flowers have yellow cone center; hand painted green and yellow stems and leaves and pink and purple flowers; glitter around flower petal edges, leaves, and stems; center back has twelve sets of grommets laced with cream satin cording; either side has boning with braid trim, two fabric flowers, and hand painted leaves and flower buds; self-fabric lining.
label: Description
content: This corset was acquired at Olveritas in Los Angeles, California as part of the museum's Latino Clothing and Identity Project, which ran from 2008-2009.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Mexico
topic: label: depicted
content: Flowers
label: referenced
content: Latino
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content: Home and Community Life: Costume
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content: Clothing & Accessories
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Jackson Gift Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2009.0173.002
label: accession number
content: 2009.0173
label: catalog number
content: 2009.0173.002
objectType: label: Object Name
content: corset
label: Object Type
content: Underwear
label: Object Type
content: Woman
label: Object Type
content: Corset
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: center front: 14 1/4 in; 36.195 cm
label: Measurements
content: center back: 11 3/8 in; 28.8925 cm