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This collection contains sixty-six advertising materials from the 1880s featuring corsets and bustles from a variety of brands. Corset makers and manufacturers promoted excellent fit in ready-to-wear garments. The bustle regained some popularity in the mid-1880s, but was losing favor by 1890. Some of the brands included are Warner Bros, Ball's Corsets, Jackson Corset Co., and Thomson's Patent Glove Fitting Corsets. The booklets and pamphlets included each provide information on the nuance of the particular brand, promoting the significance of corsets for different sizes and styles. For example, the Downs’ Self-Adjusting corset is advertised to be comfortable and healthy. The advertisements include claims such as “Highly recommended by leading physicians.” Other advertisements, such as those for Ball’s Corsets, include prominent customer satisfaction guarantees. Novelty items were also used to promote corsets, and the collection contains die-cuts, paper dolls, calendars, and transformation cards. The P.D Corsets advertisement consists of a card cut-out of an elegant woman looking through a window, when unfolded it shows the woman being aided in dressing by her maid, promoting P.D Corsets as “the best in the world” and “the high society corset on the five continents.”