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Anna Murray Douglass Dress: Making the Stay

At first I thought I would just buy a corset to wear under the dress, but then quickly changed my mind. I wanted to get the full effect of what Mrs. Douglass might of felt like on that day. I knew that an 19th century woman may have worn some type of corset/stay under the dress, but needed to find out which she might have worn in that time. My research turned up a Stay. I found this from a website called The Dreamstress: The term stays probably comes from the French estayer: to support, because that is exactly what stays did. Stays turned the torso into a stiff, inverted cone, raising and supporting the bust, and providing a solid...

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From a Number on a Napkin put into a Bra

I'll begin at this place.  It ended up in the New York Times Style. Lana Turner (featured in Curbed), meets Michelle V. Agins (Photojournalist from the New York Times) at a party.  Lana briefly tells her about her project, Michelle interested takes her number on a torn napkin (Lana doesn't really have business cards).  Michelle puts that number in her Bra....the rest is history and there is more to come.

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