Isabella's photos with the keyword: cotton

Linen is on the right, the yarn is wool, the left is wool, the cotton is draped over the upper back.

My ugly stays and pocket hoops!

The stays they originally looked. I had taken apart an old 16th c corset and kept the front of it intact. It already had several pieces of boning and channels so I had kept it around for another project. When I started the 18th century stays, I used the 16th c piece for the front. I ended up having to reshape it a bit. This picture was before the reshaping.

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This is what I was originally going to do for the corset. In the late 19th c, there are several references and extant examples of corsets with elastic in them designed by doctors. I loved the idea of belts on the sides with hot pink elastic siding. When I put it together, it fit but I needed more belts on the sides. Deciding that, as neat as it would look like that, it just wasn't me; I instead put in "real" sides and then next few pictures show the finished corset.