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Tan wool Augusta stays

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ME: I'm going to just finish binding these stays and then get nice pictures of them before I write my post about them! ALSO ME: NAPPING IS NICE LOL. I should know by now that I should just work with what I have NOW and then add more LATER, or it will never HAPPEN at ALL. So, without further ado, here's a little write-up/review of the Virgil's Fine Goods/ Scroop Augusta stays pattern !  With apparently no pictures of the back or close-ups, oops. At the very end of our last day in costume at CW. And very silly faces, but alas, that's just my face.

Welcome to 2025. Oh, it's almost 2026? And a digression on fitting into old costumes

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a costumer who insists on blogging rather than posting short-format videos will never get any traction. Not that I ever had any pretensions of being an influencer (they didn't call them that back in my day, you know). Me, I still prefer reading to videos. So here we are!   I haven't sewn much over the past year-plus, and nothing worth putting up here. However! Recently I went on a costume trip to Colonial Williamsburg. I didn't have the get-up-and-go to make any new outfits, but I did have one necessary make: new stays.