Norah Waugh's book 'Corsets and crinolines shows two photographs of seventeenth century bodices, one of which i think may be the same one as is shown in detail in the V&A book, and it also has a pattern for an off the shoulder pair of stays.
The illustration of the stays shows how the arm holes were set quite far back in the bodice, to alter the posture of the woman wearing them
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