Good evening everyone,

Just a quick post today as I am still getting over a severe case of the sniffles from my latest jaunt out and about.

This is a link to the Custom Elizabethan Stays Generator hosted on Elizabethancostume.net. You plug in your measurements and it gives you the pattern to make a set of stays. You should still make a mock-up or practise set before diving in with your good fabric, but it is 90% of the work done for you so it’s a brilliant addition to the tool kit. 

In fact, add this website to your favourites if you are doing any costuming for this era because it really is that useful. It is, however, quite an old website, so watch out for bugs because of that.

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Youtube

Costume Youtuber Fantastical Follies Costuming has made a video showing their use of this generator, so I’ll include the video before so that you can get a better idea of how it works.