Photographic print, black & white, model wearing Berlei corset, Berlei Ltd, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, c. 1930

Side-on view of a model shown wearing Berlei corset product number 26, stockings and black high-heeled shoes. The corset is laced at the sides and the stockings are attached to the girdle using suspenders. The model is pictured looking at herself in a hand held mirror. The model is also shown wearing the same foundation garment in P3645-41/3.

Manufacturer of women's undergarments and medical support garments.  Name of company from 1969 when Dunlop Australia took over Berlei Ltd and Hestia Ltd.
Name of Australian lingerie company founded by Fred and Arthur Burley from 1920 to 1969.
Australian lingerie company 1940-1969, became Berlei Hestia Ltd in 1969 when both taken over by Dunlop.

Berlei Hestia Ltd

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Fashion design

Underwear

P3645-41/2 Photographic print, black and white, model wearing Berlei corset, Berlei Ltd, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, c. 1930

Opaque photographs, usually positive, usually on paper, and generally, but not always, printed from a negative. Use `Negative prints' for prints in which the tones or colours are reversed from their appearance in nature.

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Photograph of a model wearing a Berlei corset

Object No. P3645-41/2

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