Henry W. Gilbert and Eva Maynard Martin

“ This invention consists in a novel construction of a corset designed to afford great convenience to the wearer of the corset and permit ample physical exercise essential to promote the health of the person and also produce dress-improvement of the person. ”

“ We do not limit ourselves to any specific form of the curved wire --1-- as this feature admits of many modifications. The essential feature of the said wire stay is in its ability of being flexed in any direction without danger of being broken. ”

“ Figure 1 is a detached plan view of a corset embodying our invention; Fig. 2 is an enlarged transverse section on the line --X--X-- in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary face view of one of the corset-sections showing one of the forms of the variously curved wire-stays adapted to be used in our improved corset; and, Figs. 4 and 5 show the corset applied to a person and illustrating the effects of the corset.
The fabric body of the corset is composed of a back-section -A- and two front sections --B--B--. ”