Costume
Opera costume corset
Costume workshop (illustrative) · 19th-century style
A wine-red brocade corset on a mannequin, with a necklace of blue stones — the costume that gives a nineteenth-century operatic heroine her silhouette. Rotate it to see the hooks and side chains.
- Object number
- HGO-BT-PT-0014
- Type
- Costume
- Collection
- Performance costumes
- Maker / artist
- Costume workshop (illustrative)
- Date
- 19th-century style
- Materials & technique
- Figured brocade, boning, hook fastenings and decorative metal chains
- Dimensions
- Approx. 45 cm high (estimated from the model)
- Related production / event
- Costume style for operas set in the nineteenth century (Carmen, La Traviata)
- Condition
- Good
- Display status
- In storage — Collection store — basement (illustrative)
Keywords: Costume · Opera · 3D
The story of the object
An opera costume is never merely decorative: the corset shapes a singer’s posture — and even the way they breathe on stage.
Each costume passes through dozens of performances, altered for every artist who wears it.
3D scanning records the costume before alterations, for hire and for future revivals.
Record & rights
- Provenance
- An illustrative model for the costume store, which will be 3D-scanned.
- Acquisition
- CC0 sample model used for this demo
- Digitisation
- PBR 3D model (glTF, meshopt compression) · illustrative
- Rights
- CC0 · Khronos glTF Sample Assets (Corset)
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