professional bad example

holy shit there are period regency patterns in here. a crude early form of multisize patterns, even, though i don't need that since i'd just use the basic shapes to adjust modern blocks anyway. there are stays that aren't anything like the ones people tend to reproduce! there's different ways to cut skirts, with and without trains! there's long sleeves, two-piece or one-piece with elbow dart! and look at the last set of stays this person has reproduced, it's an underbust model and it's cut on the bias. so many possibilities. i'm pretty excited by this.

(apparently i'm a patternmaking geek. this is so nonsensical. historical clothing geek still makes some degree of sense at least...)