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A toy seller playing a trumpet with hobby-horses in a frame on a stick over his right shoulder; 1688, reworked and published after c.1750 Etching and engraving
Digital Collection -Child's stays
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Stays for the Very Young, c. 1770
Susan reporting: We've discussed stays, the 18th c. version of a corset, here at the TNHG, and we've also discussed stays for young Georgi...
korsetten onderkleding kinderkleding
Neznámy maliar, Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki – Veštenie z dlane
Neznámy maliar, Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki – Veštenie z dlane | Web umenia
18th Century baby stays - rare and so cruel
This oh so tiny undergarment might be viewed as a doll item, but it is not. It is for a baby, one year old or less - so cruel! Linda Baumgarten, in her book 'What Clothes Reveal' [See Links and Research for full reference], shows us a small number of baby stays, two of them being almost exactly the same size as this one. One she describes is just 14.5" at the chest and 13.5" at the waist! [Page163/2011] She tells us that infants were placed into stays from the age of three months old…
Joconde - catalogue - dictionnaires
A Little Pretty Pocket-book, Intended for the Instruction and Amusement of Little Master Tommy, and Pretty Miss Polly
Miss Hancock Models Her New Stays
Upon completing the baby stays, Miss Hancock happily modeled them. While she was not a fan of holding still while they were laced up (what 15 month old wants to hold still?) she quickly adapted and had little trouble performing her favorite activities... Like rearranging mommy's spoons... ...and banging them on the floor. She could crawl just fine. And she quickly partook in her other favorite dining room activity -- organizing the wooden bowls. The only thing she somewhat struggled with was…