Catherine Allsop Griswold
Personal Information
Born: Unknown
Died: Unknown
Country of Birth: USA
Nationality: USA
Ethnicity: Unknown
Education
Unknown
"None found"
— Catherine Allsop Griswold
Professional Life
Field of Study: Fashion; Textiles
Institution/Corporation: None found
Degrees & Memberships: None found
Awards & Achievements
Awards: 1893 her skirt-supporting corset won an award when it was featured at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago;
Achievements: corset maker; created more 10 corset designs with 19 related to improving the comfortability of corsets for women by adjusting the mechanical design;
held 31 apparel-related patents but only 17 were located
one of her most notable innovations was a corset that had skirt-supporting ribbons, which helped distribute the weight of heavier skirts over the entirety of a woman’s body and allowed for women to be less fatigued and have a greater range of movement
1 of her corsets from 1876 is held by Metropolitan Museum of Art
played a role in the Dress Reform Movement of 1876
when a resident in New York, the Worcester Corset Company manufactured her designs
little is known about her with the exception being her patents
her first name is also listed as Cathrine or Catharine or C.A. on her patents