![AXFORDS. [Corset Catalogue]](/glam/images/items/60919.jpg "AXFORDS. [Corset Catalogue]")
Axfords
64 pp., including covers. Catalogue from a British firm manufacturing traditional English back lacing, boned corsets since 1880. Illustrated throughout with color and b/w photos of items being modeled, with a few choice items on mannequins. Also includes some vintage photos. A variety of corset styles in satin, leather, PVC, and rayon. Also includes corsets for men, plus womens camisoles, bloomers, knickers, slips, negligees, suspender belts, wigs, and shoes. Stylish photography by Guy Griffiths walks the line between high fashion and fetish, featuring intimate indoor and outdoor scenes, two women together, a fetching lass in boots with a cane, etc. Models include Carol, David, Debbie, Diane, Donna, Maddi, Melynda, Pagan and Rachel. Some text in English, French, and German.
Book Id: 60919
$35.00Dark Garden
24 pp., including covers. Illustrated throughout with b/w photos of items being modeled, plus color centerfold. A catalogue of corsets, one design per page, with stylish fetish photographs by Niki Haynes, John Carey, Emily Wilson, Peter Da Silva, egon, and Eric Kroll. Order forms stapled to inside of back cover.
Book Id: 60921
$25.00
Demask Publishing
magazine-format catalogue of 84pp., including covers. A catalogue of fetish wear and kinky clothing, illustrated throughout with full-page color and b/w photos. Many of the designs will be familiar to readers of Skin Two, "O", Zeitgeist, Secret, etc. Rubber, leather, PVC, lace. Includes corsets, basques, knickers & caches sex, bras suspender belts, corselettes, collars ('neck corsets'), stockings & gloves, shoes, boots, and accessories. Includes size charts. Models: Angie, Claudia, Miriam, Deborah, Lea, Louise, Lizette. Order forms laid in.
Book Id: 67663
$75.00FAD
80 pp., including covers. Magazine of fashion, art, music, etc., with an emphasis on the cutting edge and fetish, illustrated throughout in b/w and duotone. A lot of corsets and corsetry in this issue. Includes: fetish fashion photos (rubber, leather, corsets) by Doris Kloster; article on the photography of Irina Ionesco; interview with Crystal - "burn victim becomes bionic" with stylized latex heads and fetish clothing; "Corset Club" photo gallery; article on corsetry, compiled by Justine Herbert; a look inside H.R. Giger's Gigerbar; more corset-themed photos with Space Girl X; interviews with NYC artists Kellie Obsoky, Darren Brown, Lyle Ashton Harris, and Rita; music interviews with Helmet, Mudhoney's Mark Arm, Dave Allen of Low Pop Suicide, and Tom Verlaine; club scene with Cristina Kuta, Jimmy James, House of Domination, and Ru Paul; interview with director and stripper Linda Serbu; London Lowdown, Paris Report; tattoo talk with Erno, pierce piece with Scott Grudge, reviews and club scene reports.
Book Id: 60913
$45.00
High Places
20pp., with three sheets of price lists and ordering info laid-in. Color catalogue with sensuous, erotic photos of models (catalogue primarily features one model throughout) dressed in various corsets, waist-cinchers, deep waist-nippers, half-cup bra, suspender belt, etc. Printed labels on covers and order forms attribute this to High Places of Littleton, CO: proprietress Marsha J. McCarney. Corsets and catalogue design indicate that the corsets are from Vollers Corset Company (Portsmouth, UK).
Book Id: 67662
$75.00
Press Arts Inc.
Magazine of 52pp., including covers. Men's magazine illustrated throughout with b/w pictorials: glamour and nude photography, sexploitation film stills, etc. Features: A Tigress Shows He Skin; Invitation to a Swinging Party; Little Girls (film review with stills of Michelle Angelo in breast bondage); Baby Knows Her Beat (black model in boots); Love in For Adam and Eve (caveman-cavewoman fight, wrestling, etc.); Charlene's Chastity Belt (model in tight leather corset with crotch strap); The Psychedelic Fiat (far-out art car); A Nude in the Net (nude on the beach); The Cat Girl Kitty Lynne; Tiger in 704 (fiction by Peter Yates).
Book Id: 57918
$45.00
Schwarze Mode
52pp. Color catalogue of fetish fashion. Corsets, basques, latex, leather, shoes, etc. Style and layout looks more like a fetish magazine than catalogue, with models in sensuous and provocative poses, plus smoking, girls with girls, girl with gun, model in bath, transvestites, domination, etc. Text in German and English.
Book Id: 67466
$125.00
Surface Publishing, LLC
112 pp., plus covers. Magazine of fashion, art, music, etc., illustrated throughout with color photos. The Science Friction Issue. Features: Chloe Sevigny interview (plus cover); The Divine Discipline - corsetry photos by Ruven Afandor, of models Cathy J. and Dean Sonnenberg; profiles of Norman Reedus, Denise Richards, Iaon Gruffudd; Michael Franti and Spearhead, the video art of Tony Oursler, etc.
Book Id: 60923
$25.00
Van's Vintage Clothing
32pp., printed from photocopy, one side of the page only, in cardstock covers. A selection of correspondence on tight-lacing, figure training, and the wasp-waist, from 1925-1928. This appears to be reprinted from London Life.
Book Id: 67461
$75.00
Van's Vintage Clothing
36pp., printed from photocopy, one side of the page only, in cardstock covers. A selection of correspondence on tight-lacing, figure training, and the wasp-waist, from c. 1930; appears to be reprinted from London Life. Includes Recollections of a Corsettiere (reprinted from London Life, March 30, 1929). Also, some later material, printed from typescript, including: The Story of Edna's Figure Training by Her Nephew. The Story of Mrs. Rhys Williams' Figure Training ('written in 1943'). The Recollections of a Parisian Corsettiere, etc.
Book Id: 67462
$75.00
Van's Vintage Clothing
32pp., printed from photocopy, one side of the page only, in cardstock covers. A selection of correspondence on tight-lacing, figure training, and the wasp-waist, mostly reprinted from London Life. Includes: What Girls Suffered for Fashion: Tortures and Pleasures of Tight-Lacing, When Fainting Was Fashionable,Stays - A Thrill, etc. Also, some later material, printed from typescript, including: Two Letters from Mrs. Kayne, a Specialist Tight-Lacing corsetiere, to Mr. Grainger about Training Mrs. Grainger's Figure, and a poem, "To a tiny waisted, tightlacing lady...."
Book Id: 67463
$75.00![ZOE'S CLOSET. [Corsets and lingerie]](/glam/images/items/67465.jpg "ZOE'S CLOSET. [Corsets and lingerie]")
Zoe's Closet
44pp. Catalogue of corsets and lingerie, illustrated throughout with photographs by Guy Griffiths and some period illustrations. Printed in sepia for a sensuous, vintage look. Corsets, waist-cinchers, basques, garter belts, etc. Mostly satin and rayon, with ribbon or lace; some items in PVC. Includes corset instructions in English, and a short text in English, French, and German. Models: Carol, Debi, Diane, and Melynda. Order form and price list laid in.
Book Id: 67465
$125.00
by Burgess, Janet (compiler)
Amazon Drygoods
24 pp. A selection of correspondence from “The Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine 1867-1872” on tight-lacing, figure training, and the wasp-waist utilizing the corset. Includes 4pp. black-and-white photos of a 1970s model with her waist reduced to 19", plus two photos of a modern recreation of an iron corset cover from the court of Catherine de Medici.
Book Id: 67460
$45.00
by Carey, John and Jeff Spangenberg (photographs)
Soho Galleries
28 pp. 12x12" calendar, one high-quality b/w photo per month of female models in corsets, with other fetish elements and materials (leather, silk, tight lacing, fishnets, high heels, rear views, tattoos, breasts, gloves, rubber, ballet shoes, pierced nipples). Intriguing shot of model in white corset playing rope-bound violin with butcher knife.
Book Id: 60914
$25.00
by Coates, Alwyn (photographer)
Vollers Corset Company
16pp., with 4pp. insert and laid-in order form c/o SKIN TWO. Color catalogue with sensuous, erotic photos by Alwyn Coates of an attractive auburn-haired model dressed in various corsets, waist-cinchers, deep waist-nippers, half-cup bra, suspender belt, etc. Fashion or fetish - you decide.
Book Id: 67464
$75.00
by G. [Granger], William
Studio Offset
52 pp., including cover. [34 pages numbered text, plus 6 pages, printed on one side of the sheet only, of b/w photos]. The biography of Ethel Granger, written by her husband. With a circumference of 13 inches, Granger holds the record for the world's smallest waist. The biography also describes the couple's interests in piercings (Ethel's septum piercing and enlarged earlobes), high heels, etc. The back cover has a circle with a 13" circumference (a little over 4 inches in diameter) so you can see how truly unusual this reduction was. This biography was apprently issued in two parts; this follows the Grangers' activities up through WWII.
Book Id: 67669
$125.00
by Howard, Justice (photographs)
Soho Galleries
28 pp. 12x12" calendar, one high-quality b/w photo per month of fetish models in corsets, high heels, fishnet stockings, boots, smoking, PVC, with dogs, etc.
Book Id: 60915
$25.00
by Lacroix, Mme & M.F.
Librairie Medicale et Scientifique
Narrow 8vo. 64 pp. Illustrated with b/w photos and illustrations. A history of the corset, with sections on anatomy and physiology. Text in French. Contents: Le Corset de Toilette dans ses rapports avec l'Esthetique et la Physiologie. Historique. Le Corset au point de vue anatomo-physiologique. Le Corset anatomo-plastique au point de vue orthopedique. Corset-ceinture de M. le Dr. Ad. Ollivier.
Book Id: 67676
$350.00
by Page, Christopher
Leicestershire Museums
4to. 82pp. Black-and-white illustrations, often accented in red, throughout. The Symington collection of period corsetry contains more than 1300 specimens, including an 1856 model that is likely the first machine-made corset. This volume covers the history of the Symington firm and the evolution of the corset, through photographic examples, illustrations, fashion photography and advertising. The collection is arranged in chronological order beginning with 1856-1886, following therafter more or less by decade. Also includes short sections on corsets for girls, The Liberty Bodice, and swimwear.
Book Id: 67458
$150.00
by Rainal Freres, Leon & Jules
Masson et Cie
Sm 4to. 97 pp. Illustrated with b/w text illustrations and color plates. ['Ouvrage orne de 98 gravures']. A text on corsets and surgical appliances. Of note: laid in is a price list of appliances, referenced by page number and figure. Text in French.
Book Id: 67677
$350.00by Romantasy
Romantasy
32 pp., including covers. Illustrated throughout with b/w photos of items being modeled. A catalogue of corsets as well as an introductory primer on corsets and an appreciation of corsetry. Introduction by owner Ann Grogan. Designs by Romantasy, Paul C. Leather, B.R. Creations, True Grace, Seraglio, and C&S Constructions.
Book Id: 60920
$25.00by Shep, R.L. (compiler)
R.L. Shep
4to. Unpaginated [263 pp]. Black-and-white illustrations, notes, biblio. Hundreds and hundreds of corset illustrations. 19th and 20th Century corset ads. Corset catalogs. Department store corset ads. Corset prices. Unusual corsets. A lovely compendium for the fashion historian or fetishist.
Book Id: 67345
$100.00
by Versatile Fashions
Versatile Fashions
4to. 44 pp. Illustrated throughout with b/w drawings and reproductions from corset ads, perfect wasp waists, and a Bill Ward. cover. Includes: Sound Advice to Mothers and Governesses Regarding Corset Discipline for the Beginner. The Corsettee's Creed. Notes and Comments on Figure-Training Fundamentals. Care of the Corset. Perseverance. Recollections of a Corsettiere (reprinted from London Life, March 30, 1929). Further Experiments with Corsets (reprinted from London Life, 1936). Errata slip laid in.
Book Id: 67459
$125.00
by Waugh, Norah
Theatre Arts Books / Methuen
4to. 176pp. Black-and-white illustrations, appendices, glossary, index. The first ofMiss Waugh's important books on historic costumes, Corsets and Crinolines, set a new standard of accuracy and lively interset upon its 1954 release. Showing that the silhouette of women's dress has been in a state of continuous change, allied to economic and architectural evolution as well as changing ideas of sexual attractiveness, she itemizes three cycles in the last 400 years in which women's silhouette was blown up to the utmost limit, by artificial means, and then collapsed again to a long straight line. At these points the extremes were invariably considered absurdities and the corsets and hoops were discarded by their users, so that very few specimens from the earlier periods have come down to us. This book is a study of these shapes and how they were produced, how simple laced bodices became corsets of cane, whalebone, and steel, while padding at shoulders and hips gave way to the structures of farthingales, hoops and bustles. Since paintings, prints and photographs of these props are not sufficient to convey their three-dimensional form, Miss Waugh has provided structural drawings and patterns, always made from existing specimens. Each period is enlivened with quotations from contemporary sources -- from letters, diaries, satiric poems, tailors' and dressmakers' bills, as well as journalists' accounts, often very amusing in themselves. These describe the garments and their under-structures and show how they were viewed by the people who saw them. Also includes an index, a glossary of terms and materials, appendices on the repair and manufacture of corsets and crinolines, and on whalebone and the whale fishery that supported it.
Book Id: 67457
$55.00
by Yooll, Emily
Gossard Ltd.
71 pp. Illustrated with drawings and photos in b/w and duotone. 'Specially Written for the Corsettiere'. Introduction by Allison Settle. History of the Corset. Lessons in Corsetry Instruction: Studies in Anatomy and Physiology; The Muscular System; The Bone Structure; Corset Materials; Fabrics; Lace and Net; Boning the Corset; Corset Components and Fastenings; Suspender Fittings; Figure Types; Fitting Different Types of Garment; Fitting the Brassiere; Merchandising; Salesmanship. Presentation copy, with bookplate: 'Presented from Gossard Ltd. in token of proficiency in the art and science of corsetry as defined in the Gossard Correspondence Course, which deals with anatomy, materials, corset components, fitting and salesmanship'. Examiner /author Emily Yooll was editor of The Corsetry and Underwear Journal from 1935 to 1975.
Book Id: 67343
$150.00