The stays were designed to mold the torso into the fashionable cylindrical shape and to flatten and raise the bus line so you can see that there's this channel that runs down the center of the stays and into that you would insert what was called a busk, which is a long, straight piece of either whale bone or metal or wood that was meant to keep that front part really, really straight.
支架的設計是為了將軀幹塑造成時髦的圓柱形,並使母線變平、變高,所以你可以看到,有一條通道從支架的中心穿過,你會把所謂的 "母線 "插入其中,這是一塊又長又直的鯨魚骨、金屬或木頭,目的是讓前部保持非常非常直。