I don't know about France, but here in Virginia just about every free white woman wore stays. There are some period references to women not wearing stays, but these are people of the period pointing out aberations. Heck, the church even supplied stays to women too poor to provide their own. Not all stays were fully boned but the vast majority of women were wearing some form of stays.
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Date: 2010-05-06 10:16 pm (UTC)