Foundation of Beauty

From the collection of

Wessex Film and Sound Archive is based in Winchester. Providing the opportunity to see and hear history, the archive contains nearly 40,000 film, video and sound recordings relating to Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, ranging from late Victorian times to the present day. It includes both amateur and professional material, local newsreels, military and maritime subjects, as well as footage produced by individuals, businesses and organisations.

Foundation of Beauty

Wessex Film and Sound Archive
Portsmouth
1930-01-01
Silent
7m

This film shows a succession of models wearing a variety of corset types. Intertitles reveal the corset's name and its price - in pre-decimalisation currency. Each corset is aimed at a particular type of customer and for a particular function - from corsets suitable for outdoors and sports to those intended for evening wear. The intertitles delicately mention that certain corsets are aimed at the fuller figure while others are more suitable for younger women and girls.

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