Perhaps the term "spoon busk" is the source of the confusion. But a "spoon busk" is this:
http://store.corsetmaking.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=B-GSBSP12&Category_Code=B&Product_Count=28 I you look in your "Corsets and Crinolines" you will not find one before the 1870's... or after the 1890s. Totally Victorian artifact. The wooden busks you see in the 18th and early 19th centuries are not "spoon busks". -----Original Message----- From: Michael Deibert <michaeljdeib...@gmail.com> To: Historical Costume <h-cost...@indra.com> Sent: Fri, Mar 25, 2011 1:04 pm Subject: Re: [h-cost] Corset patterns and research questions I hope I'm not asking for too much, but could we perhaps have some references - for both viewpoints. Perhaps it's just a simple confusion or misunderstanding? And perhaps both could be right. But until we have references to either or both if that be the case, I'd like to avoid being the start of an arguement on here! Michael Deibert OAS AAS LLS On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:50 PM, <albert...@aol.com> wrote: > The spoon busk was quite before the 19th C. so it > wouldn't be considered for the Victorian period anyway. > *************** > The spoon busk is almost exclusively 1870s... so it is VERY victorian. > _____________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
