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What are "Stays" - Definition & Explanation
Last Updated on: 22-Jan-2023 (1 year, 3 months, 30 days ago)
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Stays
Stays were worn by children, both boys and girls, from the age of 18 months or when they were walking well. The first stays a child wore were "soft" or lightly boned and were never tightly laced. Stays were intended to support and round the soft rib cage. By two or a little older, the stays would be of a heavy linen, boned with pack thread, reeds, wooden splints, or baleen. These stays fostered good posture. Again, the lacing would be gently firm and not cinch or pinch.
Stays
A old type of corsets. It is over the dress or skirt hang in the lower edge, opposite a corset which cover the hip.

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