Check it out-
Yeah, it’s lame, but it’s also 2:30 am and I’m bored and I’ve been having trouble sleeping.
I just need to know what random surfing path brought you to that webpage. I cant even imagine where you started. I mean, did you type “victorian falsies” into google, and up popped the page?
Wow. Those don’t look comfortable.
Yeah, those are creepy looking.
[sub]And how did you find that site?[/sub]
Perhaps it was found through the home page for the item:
http://www.antique-lace.com/index.htm
Remarkable.
Eeek! Looks like those chest-protecters women use in full contact sports!
Ooooh! I’ve been looking at this entire site for about an hour now. Fascinating!!
In an emergency can also be used to lead a horse through a burning stable.
Also great for molding cheese in.
Looks like it could stop small caliber bullets, too…
Actually, they look pretty refined when compared with the elaborate wire rigging that gave Mae West her legendary proportions.
I can’t find a piccy, but she wore an all-in-one corset and bustiere which looked as though she made it herself out of old coat-hangers.
Wouldn’t that be great to wear on a date? Your date starts to get a little touchy feely when–surprise! You only thought you were getting to second base, bucco…
Actually, I have something similar for martial arts. It’s this sports bra with insertable hard plastic cups called “turtle shells.”
benthames, I was looking at the rest of the site-I’m a vintage clothing buff.
Hehehe…I can only imagine what they used for the guys…
Sorry if I sounded like I was poking fun…I meant it in a good-natured way. When you said it was 2:30 and you couldn’t sleep, I figured you were randomly surfing. Again, my apologies. Please, Violet, call off the dogs. And I was wondering what they used for guys, myself.
You folks do realize that it’s entirely possible that your great (something) grandmother wore those? Imagine her “gettin’ her groove on” with your great (something) grandfather while wearing those! :eek:
We have a copy of the 1897 Sears catalog at work which has an ad for those, right alongside an ad for the “Princess Bust Improver.” This item consists of, and I kid you not, a can of “Bust Cream, or Food,” and a metal device that looks, and apparently works, like a plunger. The mental image which comes to mind every time I see the ad is extremely funny.
I happened across another instance of “falsies” quite by accident. We were setting up a new exhibit in the museum in which I work. I was dressing a dummy with a turn-of-the-century gown. While I was stuffing the bodice, I noticed strange sideways pockets sewn inside. It took me a while before it finally clicked as to what they were, and that was only because I started utilizing the pockets for their intended purpose-- to pad out the bosom.
Hey, I know that ad, Lissa! There’s a picture of it in the bathroom at one of my favorite places to go, The Martin City Melodrama and Vaudeville Company.
I must admit that I have the same reaction to it.
They’re not Victorian Falsies, they’re Victorian Bras, although admittedly more on the WonderBra end of the spectrum.
My great-great grandmother had 17 children. One of them may have come out sideways. I doubt she had time to get her groove on with anyone or anything. 