how wonderful!! thank you for the beautiful work, its strangely calming learning from people that are open about having made mistakes themselves!
@HandBoundCostumes
3 жыл бұрын
Lol - trust me - mine are a-plenty :) And happily, somehow all of my mistakes happen on the garments I'm making for me! :)
@waltervelleda
4 жыл бұрын
I love how the stays doesnt want to lay flat against the table, they must look gorgeous on an actual human boby! Thanks again for these videos, they are always very informative and helpful!
@Goldkehlchen20
4 жыл бұрын
This really was informative, thanks a lot for uploading it! :D
@beccastell6439
2 жыл бұрын
Just stumbled on this and a bit off topic but the subject of tips - wondering how do you guess if a pair of second hand stays might fit a friend in the USA? I can't wear stays any more due to adhesions but my friend can. Obviously there is no standard sizing so is there anything I can measure that will tell us if they will work for her? Will her bust to waist ratio or shoulder to hip length tell us anything of use?
@HandBoundCostumes
2 жыл бұрын
Hello - thank you for your comment. Ok - so it's not dead obvious - as you can imagine but yes bust to waist ratio is very important - or nape to waist if she knows that. And a good kinda standard way - is measure the bust on the stays and compare it to hers. She needs to be about 1 1/2" to 2 1/2 inches larger for it to be kind of comfortable. Do the same with the waist but with the waist you can go up to like 4" larger as the waist can be pulled in further than the bust. If you measure these - and she's not like massively bustier than you, you should get a vague idea if they will work. Hope this helps :) xxx
@suzi3creamcheeze
4 жыл бұрын
How about a pair of bodies (stays) that lace in front and back and have a Stomacher under the laces in front? Or only laced in front with a Stomacher?
@HandBoundCostumes
4 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure what you mean - I've never seen a pair of stays in the physical like that but I have seen hints towards them in imagery and there are examples of them in other museums. Lol we're trying to work through the stays we have seen at the mo - trying to understand how they work and why :). Thanks for your msg. xxx
Yeah I've seen these - they are LOVELY videos! And I wasn't saying the stays you mentioned didn't exist but more, lol, what made you think to mention them? Was trying to figure out what you were trying to say :). many thanks xxx
@suzi3creamcheeze
4 жыл бұрын
@@HandBoundCostumes Thank you for your lovely video. It is very informative. My own research into 18th century stays has taken me more into the more common styles of stays than were worn by women depicted in paintings, or are in museums. Perhaps there are fewer extant examples of working women's stays? I sincerely doubt an 18th centuiry working woman's stays would end up in a museum. After all, they were considered to be underwear, and there are certainly very few extant examples of 18th century working women's shifts in museums. Certainly practicality was more important than high fashion for the 18th century working woman. There were just so many more working women than women of high fashion back then? So straps, stomachers, lacing front and back, all made those stays more flexible in terms of a figure that changed with bearing children nad afterwards. Not all women were Princesses. Is that what I was trying to say? (^_^)
@suzi3creamcheeze
4 жыл бұрын
@@HandBoundCostumes Here is another one, very good, from LBCC Historical, that shows 18thC stays, front and back lacing, with stomacher AND a wooden busk! kzitem.info/news/bejne/2HifqZmtsKJ2e6w
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