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| Keywords: Regency-underclothes.png Regency underclothes from an 1824 reprint of the 1811 Book of English Trades showing one form of Regency stays front-lacing short stays incapable of constricting the natural waist as Victorian corsets later did According to the original caption this represents the Dress-Maker taking the pattern off from a lady by means of a piece of paper or cloth; the pattern if taken in cloth becomes afterwards the lining of the dress The styles shown are more appropriate to the year 1811 than to 1824 A cropped and mirror-image reversed version of this same illustration is reprinted in Fabric of Society A Century of People and their Clothes 1770-1870 by Jane Tozer and Sarah Levitt PD-old-100-1923 1810s fashion Women's underwear | ||||
