A tightly laced corset wasn’t the only gut-busting garment worn by fashionable women in the Gilded Age.
If you really wanted to achieve a chic silhouette, you topped your outfit off with this contraption: the Diamond Dee Skirt Grip, as seen in this ad from the NYPL digital collection.
Tags: 1890s fashions, chic women in the 1890s, clothes of the 1890s, Diamond Dee Skirt Grip, Gibson Girl fashion, Gilded Age fashion, skirt grip
