1820's Stays

[dawnluckham]

I just thought I'd share that Time Travelers has a nice corded corset on eBay right now. These are late 1820's. The metal busk is interesting! The cording is beautiful. Neat silhouette!

I *think* they've got it laced up incorrectly. It looks like the eyelets are a bit off and it maybe should be spiral laced.

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[chiemi]

WOW! That's really neat looking. I have no experience with stays, but I like the way it looks.

[lauren]

Wow! That's a very neat corset.

[elizabethw]

Sept 4, 2008 11:55:17 GMT -5 dawnluckham said:

I *think* they've got it laced up incorrectly. It looks like the eyelets are a bit off and it maybe should be spiral laced.

Yep, it's definitely meant to be spiral laced when you look at the top two eyelets on the right and the bottom two on the left you can see they are spaced only half as far apart as the rest as that's how you get spiral lacing to line up properly.
I'll have to save some of those pictures for quilting inspiration on my Mantua Maker stays (I'm at the fitting stage right now)