Medical images like this one offer an explanation of the benefits of wearing corsets.

Two women in white lab coats measure a woman for her foundation garment in a clinical-looking setting complete with scales.

A woman dances wearing a red dress and feathered hat.

This cinema glass slide advertises the services of Berlei corsetiere Mrs Winifred Doyle. Galton's was a department store in Maitland, NSW.

This stern-looking woman is a perfect example of Berlei's use of real women as models.

This educational glass slide would have been shown to prospective Berlei fitters.

The woman in this slide is wearing a dress with a big skirt supported by a bustle. This type of dress was worn by wealthy women around the 1880s and dates from the late Victorian era.

The woman depicted in this hand-coloured glass slide is wearing a dress from the Victorian era (approximately 1850s). The slide was part of an educational slide-show presented to Berlei f

Berlei's education for women on how to improve their figures included 'diet, exercises, correct corsetry, proper posture, individual make-up and inexpensive frocks chosen to type'.

This illustration of the Berlei Type Indicator would have been used either as part of the Berlei training for prospective corsetieres, or as part of one of their women-only live shows or film