… the Worcester Company in the US was on the rise as the leading manufacturer or mass produced corsets in the world during the early Victorian era.
By this time corsetiers were both men and women thanks to the sewing machine which had been modified “back” from being single needle “punchers” to industrial models. It would be in the early 1860’s that Singer would put the sewing machine into homes.
(Photo: late 1860’s chain stitch home sewing machine from Canada, and an 1898 mass produced Worcester corset)