Linen whalebone stays w/ steel under bust form & velum underarm reinforcements, stay channels in type of highly unusual quilted stitch, B 31", W 24", L 9"-14.5",(laces N/I, broad stains & discoloration throughout, velum stiff & cracking, tiny-0.25" wear holes to all bindings, 1" seam opening & 0.25" tear CF top edge at busk, 0.5" hole in lining) very good.
Linen whalebone stays w/ steel under bust form & velum underarm reinforcements, stay channels in type of highly unusual quilted stitch, B 31, W 24, L 9-14.5,(laces N/I, broad stains & discoloration throughout, velum stiff & cracking, tiny-0.25 wear holes to all bindings, 1 seam opening & 0.25 tear CF top edge at busk, 0.5 hole in lining) very good.
Catalog, Live Auction - Spring Sartorial Surprise - Visions of Vintage-9260 by Augusta Auctions
PAIR OF LINEN & WHALEBONE STAYS, ITALY OR SPAIN, 1760s sold at auction on 10th May
Isis' Wardrobe
My 18th century source — Women's Undergarments
Catalog, Live Auction - Spring Sartorial Surprise - Visions of Vintage-9260 by Augusta Auctions
Corset, French
1750-1759 Fashion History Timeline
PAIR OF LINEN & WHALEBONE STAYS, ITALY - Augusta Auctions
17th Century Linen Stays, 1680s Corset
Working Stays, 1740-1760, English, back-lacing. Lavender wool, linen lining, boning (balee…
Catalog, Live Auction - Spring Sartorial Surprise - Visions of Vintage-9260 by Augusta Auctions
My 18th century source — Women's Undergarments
The practical habits of fiction (Part II) - Women, Work, and Clothes in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Green Linen 18th Century Stays – French Meadows
