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The stays have a wide, shallow neckline, pointed front, back and skirts extending below the waist, and fasten at the back. They are cut in 8 pieces and partially boned, with baleen strips running horizontally across the front. A ⅛-inch (2 mm) wide ribbon of silver filé covers the side and back seams. There are 8 worked lacing holes, asymmetrically placed, on each side at the back. The centre front seam is open ⅔ down the front with 8 worked lacing holes on each side, fastened with a ¼ inch (6 mm) wide yellow silk grosgrain ribbon. The shoulder straps each have 2 lacing holes fastening at the back. 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The collection had been formed by the artist Talbot Hughes, who wrote a book on the history of dress, illustrated with photographs of models wearing items from his collection. A large firm in America had offered to buy the collection and present it to the Metropolitan Museum, New York, but Hughes did not want it to go abroad. At the suggestion of Cecil Harcourt Smith of the V&A, Harrods bought it for £2,500 and gave it to the Museum for the 'public good'. 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