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Capt. Sterling

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  1. Hmmm I don't know. I will have to think about this a while....
  2. I LOVE Diosa in the shackles having an every day conversation with the pregnant mistress in the background... ROTDLMAO!!!
  3. Oi Sis, the parallel stitches running perpendicular to what looks like the seams... are they just holding down the seam allowance?
  4. I am going to start now by wishing you a very happy birthday, since I won't be any where near a computer come the actual day. Many, very, happy returns of the day Monsieur Souris!
  5. Yes I read this the first time, but you continued to call them stays and concluded with...Lara did say that this is a great example of the evolution of the stays. ....but you also wrote that Lara said"The Met labeled it a 'Bodice' - and this may be correct. "May" makes it sound as if she might disagree... that is what I was asking...why might she disagree?
  6. Why does Lara think the set with the roses are a corset and not a dress bodice?
  7. Hmmm the more I look at the print the more I am wondering about this one... been looking at some paintings from the 1740s-50s and there are some court style dresses, where once again, the style falls off the shoulder for the ladies... but then I have only been looking at this time frame for about three hours...example
  8. Well without seeing the pair that you are writing about, perhaps for nursing? Did they appear to unlace any where at the edge of the cup?
  9. These do look very much like the 1715 stays pattern in shape. They did have front and back lacing corsets according to Waugh and full and half boned corsets
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