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This is the most comfortable pair of stays I have ever seen--and it just hooks in the front. If you look on the sidebar here at Kleidung um 1800, that is where the pattern and some instructions are. Look down each paragraph to the text in italics, that is the English text. This is also a great set of stays if you don't have anyone to help you get into a corset!

And there are many cute pictures of her wearing it on her blog , though if I had spent that long making it (and I suspect much of it was hand-sewn) I would be AGGGHH NO DIRT! DON"T TOUCH THE DRESS!! and that thing would be in a glass case. I think it's prettier than the original, too.