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Practical Instructions in Stay Making

December 8th, 2010

These are posted verbatim from the August 1857 (not 1858, as I had previously thought) issue of Godey’s Lady’s Book, with gratitude to Accessible Archives for making them so, well, accessible.

Godey's 1857 Stay Making
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