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title: "Stays and Corsets: Historical Patterns Translated for the Modern Body"
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# Stays and Corsets: Historical Patterns Translated for the Modern Body

**Price:** AR$17664
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- **What is this?** Stays and Corsets: Historical Patterns Translated for the Modern Body
- **How much does it cost?** AR$17664 with free shipping
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## Description

Stays and Corsets: Historical Patterns Translated for the Modern Body goes a step beyond traditional historical costuming texts by not only providing you with historical pattern diagrams and information, but by showing you how to adapt these patterns to the contemporary body shape. Using her original pattern-drafting system, author Mandy Barrington will show you how to draft a historical pattern for a modern body shape, while still retaining an accurate historical silhouette. Each pattern has been generated from an original stay, corset, or pattern taken from a historical garment. The instructions to follow these new patterns are designed to accommodate any size of female figure, allowing you to avoid extremely difficult, time consuming, and inaccurate historical pattern re-sizing Requiring only basic prior knowledge of pattern drafting, all calculations have been worked out for the costume maker and are provided in simple tables accompanied by easy-to-read, step-by-step diagrams that clearly show how the historical pattern is plotted onto the female basic block, coupled with photographs of the constructed stays and corsets.

Review: great book - i really like how this book is organized
Review: Easy to follow instructions! - Beautifully written book. The corsets are easy to pattern after you make your custom body pattern. I bough this book after my co-worker showed it me me. I only wished that this book contained the "s-curve" corset from the Victorian era. Overall a 5 star book! A bit of an investment, but totally worth every penny!

## Features

- Highlight, take notes, and search in the book
- In this edition, page numbers are just like the physical edition

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #556 in Grooming & Style #5,974 in Theater (Books) #36,907 in Arts & Photography (Kindle Store) |

## Images

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ great book
*by K***N on February 1, 2025*

i really like how this book is organized

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Easy to follow instructions!
*by A***R on May 14, 2017*

Beautifully written book. The corsets are easy to pattern after you make your custom body pattern. I bough this book after my co-worker showed it me me. I only wished that this book contained the "s-curve" corset from the Victorian era. Overall a 5 star book! A bit of an investment, but totally worth every penny!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great book for advanced drapers.
*by M***4 on August 11, 2017*

This book is wonderful if you need to make corsets for more difficult figures. The instructions to make a bodice sloper are easy to follow. Be warned that the book uses centermeters instead of inches. This I think is a positive because it makes the necessary math easier.

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*Last updated: 2026-10-13*