The town has a large agricultural trade and a manufacture of corsets.
I learned that fin he grew auld he pit on corsets an dyed his hair.
The principal manufactures are hardware, foundry and machine shop products, ammunition and fire-arms (the Winchester Company), carriages and wagons, malt liquors, paper boxes and corsets.
Do not constrict the waist as much as later corsets, and gives support to both the small and large bust.
I was besieged by people asking me to make corsets for them.