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Two weeks ago I took a class in Williamsburg on fitting 18th century stays...it was fantastic. During the course of the workshop, it came up that I once got to try the stays Glenn Close wore in the beginning of the movie Dangerous Liaisons. That occured at another workshop, run by Mela Hoyt-Heydon, who had been one of the costumers for the movie and sewed the stays. She selected me as model, since I was relatively close in build to what Glenn Close had been at the time of the filming (except Close had an exceptionally short back, apparently). Interestingly, the film editors tinted the stays in the final movie. So, after the flip, see me ham it up, just like I was the Marquise de Mertuil...