16th century stays pattern

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Hello Everyone! Very sorry for the serious lack of west-coast entries lately. My "real" job has been all-consuming for the last couple o...

Check out my post about this 16th century Italian dress! www.morgandonner.com/2013/12/matching-russet-outfits-part-2/

The type of look I am planning to emulate. Longing for some years for a longer-waisted 18th century silhouette suited to 1740s-1760s half-dress wear, this January I finally found the gumption to attempt a pair of stays to create the look. Stays weren't something I wanted to make, particularly. The local landfill now hides an aborted pair of 1790s stays, and I was never wholly happy with a pair of hand-sewn 1790s transition stays I spent a whole season hunched over and that bear specks of…

These 18th century linen stays were an impromptu sewing project with linen fabric scraps from my stash.

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In preparation for making your Simplicity 8162 18th c. stays, you may wish to re-draw the boning pattern. The pattern comes with an accurate layout for half-boned stays. If you would like to deviate from this, perhaps to add more support or change to a fully

For the HSF Challenge 3: Under It All, back in february, I decided to start the foundation on my planed 1550s dress (which I still haven’t gotten around to make). So I decided to make a corse…

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Hello, strangers! I’m back to post again about those underbust stays from the pre-Regency, in preparation for the Short Stays Sew-Along. I saw these, as the label suggests, at Historic Cherry…

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Another project off my list. I worked on this off and on for several months. A majority of the construction was done over the course of a week. The actual finishing like the eyelets and binding and the busk took far longer then sewing the boning channels. Two layers of cotton duck with the outer

18th Century Stays - Q&A about Simplicity 8162 ~ American Duchess

This summer, I started on what will be my big project for the rest of the year. A pair of fully hand-sewn stays, based on this beautiful pair in Patterns of Fashion 5: When I first heard Luca Costi…

My original plan for the 16th HSF challenge – Terminology, (making something from “the-great-historical-fashion-and-textile-glossary”) was to make a regency round gown, but as the…

This project was started on a total whim, back in March (ahem), I got through about three-quarters of the way through, lost interest, and ju...