Bestforms Counter Display
Bestform’s Counter Display 16” x 11” w/a 3-dimensional celluloid woman in a teal and white bra and girdle and holding a jump rope. Text, “flirtation walk girdle, Frees You, gives as you walk, gives as you play, gives as you dance.” Made of chipboard and framed in teal w/a pink center. DATE: 1950s.
DeBevoise advertising
DeBevoise 7” x 11” card advertising “DeBevoise Brassiere for Christmas” pictures a woman wearing a corset with words “ Gift Suggestion.” Print black and red, sides bordered with holly. DATE: 1915 through 1920s.
2010.5.4 Display placard advertisement for “Life-Bra by Formfit, Elevates, Separates, Rejuvenates.” Light greenish gray chipboard ad w/a metal frame has a 12” picture of a pretty woman wearing a pink bra. She is smiling, has bright red lips, a and a 40s style curly hairdo. There is a hanging cord on the back. 12” x 20.” DATE: 1940s.
Display Model-Formfit Creations
Display Model for “Formfit Creations Life Bra,” moulded of cellulose (cotton/wood) in a deep pink flesh color, 13” at its widest point and 17” from the neck to the waist. DATE: 1930s or 40s.
Display Placard Advertisement
Display placard advertisement for “Life-Bra by Formfit, Elevates, Separates, Rejuvenates.” Light greenish gray chipboard ad w/a metal frame has a 12” picture of a pretty woman wearing a pink bra. She is smiling, has bright red lips, a and a 40s style curly hairdo. There is a hanging cord on the back. 12” x 20.”
DATE: 1940s
Free Standing Venus Flesh Color Display Model
Free standing Venus “Flesh Color Display Model,” says, “VenuS YB Stout?” the woman is 36” long and wearing a full corset w/a lace bodice, elastic straps, a working 5” zipper from waist down and 6 fabric garters. The base covers the legs below the knees. Trademark 11/25/25 by Venus Brassiere Co., Chicago. DATE: 1940s.
Garden Colors Luxite Gowns, Briefs
Garden Colors Luxite, “Gowns, Briefs, Stepins, Panties,” chip board ad 15” x 10,” pictures two women, one wearing a light blue gown, the other in bra and panties.
Warner’s Health Corset, Gray plaster bust of a woman
Gray plaster bust of a woman. Just above the bosom says, “Warners Health Corset,” the text would be visible above the corset. 11” diameter and 28-1/2” length. Her hair is in a chignon, a popular style in the 1870s and well into the 1880s. Warner Brothers opened their business in 1874 with the Health Corset. Their health corsets became so successful that “...in 1883 Harper's Bazaar announced the four most popular corsets found in an American household were all Warners.” DATE: Circa 1883.
