A old type of
corsets. It is
over the dress or skirt hang
in the lower edge, opposite
a
corset
which cover the hip.
Typically is a stay maked in
handwork and is older as
1860 or in some states 1870.
By the time the stays been
shorter and shorter end as a
brassiere.
A stays
have normal shoulder strap
opposite a
waist cincher.