Just when you think technology can't rock your world any more...
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/johnson/
In the John Johnson collection of ephemera at the Bodleian Library there
are images online of corset and stay-makers trade cards, as well as many
other trade cards and other ephemera.
My favorite is John Arpthorpe's, Trade Cards 26 (60)
. There is an illustration of stays very similar to the one in the
centre-top of page 101 in the Kyoto Costume Institute's "Revolution in
Fashion, 1715-1815, the one that looks like typical late 18th century stays
but with "cups" cut out with laces to adjust them. I'd assumed that it was
a homemade attempt to modernize their stays. It stays were
being illustrated that way but tradespeople, then obviously that was a
transitional style than a homemade hack job.
Enjoy!
Sheridan Alder
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