Fitting 18th Century Stays Like a PRO!

[@FantasticalFolliesCostuming]

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[@blacktulip1064]

So complicated but It's always great to see this in your videos. The more that I watch them, the more it all begins to make sense (I'm very slow learner). The Cassandra stays look like an interesting pattern and your purple stays are awesome!! 🧡💙

[@FantasticalFolliesCostuming]

I'm glad things are starting to make sense! It's a lot simpler and easier when you're physically doing it...it's like putting together something from Ikea 😂 Thank you, and thanks for watching!

[@mewtrix_]

Your videos are really inspiring and helpful. I feel really encouraged that I can make stuff I could only dream of! Plus, I love your sense of humour and personality! Just had to let you know =)

[@FantasticalFolliesCostuming]

Aw, thank you so much for your kind words! 🤗 So glad that they're helpful to you! Thanks for watching!

[@alexiscarlton1355]

The pain of fitting things, I feel ya, I have been staring down the next step in making myself some pants and think I have the will to proceed. Thank you for sharing!

[@FantasticalFolliesCostuming]

Aaah pants! Tricky things! Good luck! ☘️☘️

[@MajaPlejada]

Happy talk like a pirate day!

[@FantasticalFolliesCostuming]

Arrrrrrgh! Right back atcha, matey!

[@elizabethclaiborne6461]

You do the most useful and educational videos in the historic space. Thank you!

[@FantasticalFolliesCostuming]

Thank you!! So glad you find them enjoyable/helpful!

[@blacktulip1064]

I agree!

[@MajaPlejada]

Will be making for myself pink stays from v&a book 2 soon, pray for me - you already gave me all the resources you could in your past videos which I will be heavily referencing

[@FantasticalFolliesCostuming]

Eeee good luck! That's one of the projects on my (admittedly very long) to-do list!

[@TheGabygael]

When doing mock ups always trust your instinct: a lot of the time it's right and you'll grow an intuitive understanding of how that piece is supposed to feel and look like to you; Sometimes it'll fuck up big time and it will highlight a detail of that piece you didn't understand and you'll get it right from that point on (hopefully)

[@FantasticalFolliesCostuming]

Yes! All of this! Totally agree 😁

[@lucyj8204]

Another hobbit Dolly Parton checking in 🙋‍♀ It's great to hear all the steps of the process including the social/personal factors (MOAR COFFEE) as well as the technical ones - because they are all part of it! Thanks again.

[@FantasticalFolliesCostuming]

You're very welcome! I'm glad you find it useful. Thanks for watching!

[@TheMagnoliaWitch]

Watched this while knitting because I can do that with my eyes elsewhere so I can still feel productive while also fighting the plague. Have some tea? 🍵

[@FantasticalFolliesCostuming]

That's a good idea! One of the reasons I love knitting 😁 tea's definitely an option--hope you feel better, soon!

[@kellytroy7602]

Stays are just so pretty, especially in that gorgeous purple! Looking forward to see more of them and what outfit goes with them. I'm sure it's going to be fabulous 💜

[@FantasticalFolliesCostuming]

Isn't it a lovely color? 🤩 The dye was pricey, but I'm so enamored with it!! Can't wait to share the final make. Thanks for watching!

[@sarahmwalsh]

I am also dealing with an extremely annoying plague in the form of a persistent cough. Solidarity!! Thanks for another great video!

[@FantasticalFolliesCostuming]

Oh no! I hope you feel better, soon! Thanks for watching!

[@stormraynes1707]

Ahoy! Looks like the holds be full, it be time to make for journey's end. Set the sails!

[@FantasticalFolliesCostuming]

Arrrrrgggh! Tie off the sheets and shiver me timbers!! 🦜 ...you'd think, having actually been a sailing instructor, I could do better than that...😳

[@stormraynes1707]

@@FantasticalFolliesCostuming, ay, ye be needin' some practice there, lass. Be forgiven. Google translate fails too.

[@carolyng5235]

Great timing! I am currently creating a 1760s outfit and watched while hand sewing the petticoat. Stays are my next final frontier - I've made 19th century stays and corsets, but I feel intimidated by the prospect of fully boned stays. Your trial and error demonstration of the fitting and mockup process really helps! Love your channel ❤

[@FantasticalFolliesCostuming]

Love it! Glad you enjoyed the video! Don't be intimidated by fully boned stays--yes, it does take time to do all that boning, but you also don't have to remove, say, the boning on seams whenever you need to make an adjustment like you do with corsets! They're actually easier.

[@SpringStarFangirl]

Stays aren't really my jam, but these are absolutely gorgeous!

[@FantasticalFolliesCostuming]

Thank you so much!! 😊

[@heidiiiM]

Thanks, I really want to make my own corset or stays one day. For now I just watch videos about making them. I need to learn more about them.

[@FantasticalFolliesCostuming]

Rip off the bandaid and do it! It's a skill you can only really master with physical practice. No video can teach you about your own body's quirks quite like making a crappy pair of stays can! 🧡🧡🧡

[@liadanducky]

How did you know I needed this right now?! Halloween (and fall wardrobe if I’m honest) here I come!

[@FantasticalFolliesCostuming]

Whoohoo! I love accidental clairvoyance! 😂😂 Good luck with your costume!

[@liadanducky]

@@FantasticalFolliesCostumingthank you! Already picked up a few ideas from this fitting video so big thanks for making it!

[@fatsparrowsewing]

I hope you feel better soon! I'm about to make the Redthreaded 1780s font lacing stays and this video is super helpful! I'm another Dolly Parton if she were a hobbit and have to take 4 inches out of the pattern because I'm only 4'11" tall. The boning channels all need to be redrawn, it's a lot! I've only made a corset and boned bodice for my little girl because fitting on my own body is so daunting! But your videos are really helping me feel like I can do it! But I think I'll make my Regency short stays first, haha. 😅

[@FantasticalFolliesCostuming]

Thank you!! Every day is a little bit better 🤞 I'm glad this was helpful! Redthreaded's stays I find are like, eeeeeeeextra long, so that checks lol. A handy tip for when you're ready for those channels--just draw a couple for reference (and any ones that change direction subsequentially) and use your gauge on the machine for the rest. Short stays are definitely a good step forward (but I promise, after making a corset, the stays are actually a lot easier!!)

[@sugarcoatedgoggles]

Your timing is impeccable. I'm about to bust out with a pair of Cassandra stays for myself and a friend.

[@FantasticalFolliesCostuming]

Hah! Go figure! You're a very good friend 😂

[@sugarcoatedgoggles]

@@FantasticalFolliesCostuming Right!? I'm *such* a good friend.

[@cassmacdonald-perfectlyimp2486]

As an almost-fellow Hobbit Dolly Parton (same upper body, insanely long legs), I feel this video and appreciate your work. Planning on making my own set (prob not this pattern) and I have IDEAS which will make the thing accessible and incorporate elements/ideas around maternity stays for flexibility of size and boob age. Thank you for this. So helpful, you wonderful, amazing, creative [insert noun of choice here], you x PS did my eyes deceive me or is that, in fact, home made reusable lacing tape in those mock-ups?! PPS 😊😊😊 PPPS if you have problems with the straps showing with this style, cross them over under the stay guards.

[@FantasticalFolliesCostuming]

Awesome, sounds like a great project! And yep--I have three or four different-sized sets of lacing strips for all my corset mockups. Best thing I ever did for myself!!!

[@MarhaMuffin]

Video posted 13 seconds ago. Never been so fast! 😮

[@FantasticalFolliesCostuming]

YES!! 🏆 You get a trophy for the first comment! Yay! 🤩😂

[@MarhaMuffin]

@@FantasticalFolliesCostuming Hurray! My first first comment ever! Haha. Great video btw~ Just what I needed, as I just wore my first pair of stays and I can already tell that I need some fitting for the next one that I make 🙈❤️

[@cbw900]

Hey! Here's some engagement for the arrrrgorithm!

[@FantasticalFolliesCostuming]

Hey! Thank you! Very much appreciated 😊

[@Tisiloves]

I really like the colour for your final stays

[@FantasticalFolliesCostuming]

Thank you!! Pretty happy with it. The dye was pricey(er) than some of the others, but 😍

[@Tisiloves]

@FantasticalFolliesCostuming getting a good purple dye can be so hard

[@mariaborgvall7350]

Trying to find the info for my alterations needed as I adjust my mock-up, but I have a small bust and a freakishly long torso 😂

[@FantasticalFolliesCostuming]

Apply the techniques in reverse! Or just experiment and figure out what works. It's a trial and error process, for sure.

[@dianetheone4059]

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[@FantasticalFolliesCostuming]

Thank you!!

[@nian60]

I haven't seen Beetlejuice 2. Which character are you doing? 🙂 I find ginger and garlic work against the plague (drink or eat). I hope you feel better soon. 🤒 Thanks for the video.

[@FantasticalFolliesCostuming]

Beetlejuce. Well. Beatlejuce. Thanks! Already a lot better than I was when this was filmed!

[@nian60]

@@FantasticalFolliesCostuming Oh, OK. I will look it up. Thanks. That's good to hear. 🙂

[@bunhelsingslegacy3549]

7:19 Yeah, I see myself in that photo and I don't like it. My workaround for "brain says we ain't doing that again" is it goes into the UFO pile for later consideration and I go do something else, then before scissors may touch fabric on the next Shiny New Project, I have to do a mending, re-examine a UFO and darn 1D6 socks back into service and if I can face it again at that point, that's what we do. And yes, my stays mockup has been there for a year now. And I'm ok with that, it's next on the re-examine, and if it goes well it might become the next Shiny New Project.

[@FantasticalFolliesCostuming]

If you're zen with moving on and coming back to it later, that's great! 🌟 That is...a much healthier way to deal with projects 🤣

[@bunhelsingslegacy3549]

@@FantasticalFolliesCostuming It does mean that my idea to make stays has been in the UFO bin over a year.... but yeah, it's what works for me. I don't have to be productive, I just stab fabric so I don't stab people!

[@pippaseaspirit4415]

I’m autistic, so forgive me if I unintentionally say something wrongly! Your un-made-up face is so gorgeous and beautiful; why do you spend money on makeup?

[@FantasticalFolliesCostuming]

That's nice of you to say! Thank you! I like makeup, and I like the way it looks. I think you're probably in the minority as far as your sentiments 🤷‍♀️

[@Wee_Catalyst]

1:57 My brain too!!! 😭😭🤣 “Coffee. Definitely time for a coffee, nothing else going on here anyway” 😂

[@FantasticalFolliesCostuming]

Lol!! ☕☕☕