London's Fashion Alphabet | C - Corsets

Welcome to the newest episode of #LondonsFashionAlphabet. We won't waist any time in revealing the topic of this week's installment. It's corsets. Join Senior Curator of Fashion & Decorative Arts, Beatrice Behlen as she introduces you to game-changing corset designer: Roxey Ann Caplin. She'll also busts a couple of myths around this undergarment as she shows you two exquisite examples from our fashion archive at the Museum of London. For those of you interested, you can view Madame Caplin's book which Beatrice mentions here: http://bit.ly/2Ylmfa1 We would also like to make a small correction (whoops!). At 3:34 Beatrice says 'corsets' when she meant to say 'petticoats'. If you would like to have an explore through the rest of our wonderful dress and textiles collection you can view a lot of it online here: http://bit.ly/2Ml3JrX Follow #LondonsFashionAlphabet on Instagram and explore other London stories via our social channels (we're funny and nice, promise!): https://instagram.com/museumoflondon https://www.facebook.com/museumoflondon/ https://twitter.com/MuseumofLondon