THREE of the four corners at the busy intersection of 6th Avenue and West 14th Street have seen building teardowns in recent years, with the latest one coming n the southwest corner as the old is swept away and the new is ushered in. Before new construction gets underway, a postage stamp ad for H&H Corsets, dating from the 1900s-1910s, has shown up and will be quickly covered over soon enough. In the 1800s and early 1900s, women wore tight corsets to emphasize hourglass figures.
Here’s an H&H magazine ad. The H’s stood for Henderson & Henderson, a Buffalo-based company. This ad wasn’t for corsets, but for pneumatic bust forms, an accessory of which I have no knowledge whatsoever. It appears to have made busts look fuller in the days before there was surgery and breast implants for that kind of thing. Ladies, Comments are open if you know.
Photos via Jason House in the Facebook Ghost Signs group.
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9/6/23
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H&H is shown in this review of various ways of readjusting the female physique after the turn of the 20th Century:
https://witness2fashion.wordpress.com/2019/07/21/the-rapidly-changing-corseted-shape-part-1-1907-to-1910/
Flat chested! Such mortification!! PS non-lady chiming in.
I guess this means that 100 years hence they will tear down an old building
and uncover ancient spray painted graffiti