Recently we costumed for the play "A Little Princess." One of the characters
is a young girl with a bit of a weight problem. She was superbly portrayed by
a rather thin young girl. We stuffed a bodystocking with fiberfill at first
during rehearsals but it was so hot she nearly passed out and
i am making one last effort to find an extant set of
regency era unboned stays (or having only a few
bones). in my travels i have seen only 4 or 5 of
these, and all are very different from one another. i
do have one pattern a colleague is sharing for a
front-closing version, but would really like
