These are photos of when this dress was under construction. It is completed now, but my photos of it are not!
I added an antique steel cut broach to complete the look.
Fully-boned eighteenth-century stays are intense, as the guts of this one based on an example from the Patterns of Fashion no.5 demonstrate. I used two split reeds per boning channel, cream wool satin for the top layer, and leather for binding the edges.
American Duchess fans will recognize this dress!
1780s corset (“stays”), partially boned