Believe it or not, the correct underpinning are what makes or breaks a historical outfit. Shifts, chemises, stays, corsets, petticoats … that’s what it really takes to get it right.
Voile shift, blue and tan brocade stays, and three sizes of blue satin hooped petticoats.
Regency stays made with cording instead of reed, plastic, or metal bones.
These stays are stiffened with hand embroidered patterns stuffed with wool batting.
Corset in white coutil with front fastening busk and point in center front.
This corset is long - it has a 14" busk. Fitted individual pieces and bust gussets give it a very contoured fit.
This corset has many applied boning channels to the outside - very heavily boned. It was the first one I made in about 1993.
Made from cotton muslin, I made these in the 1990's at the same time I made the Early Edwardian Satin Corset.