More corset sighs

[frualeydis]

The corset still sucks in a lot of places, but I will probably just make it worse by taking it a part again. At least it gives a good shape and the bad parts are below the waist which is an area I plan to cover with drawers and petticoats anyway. The upper part looks pretty good, and I think ...eh...inviting :) So now I'm going to find something to bind it with and then put some lace along the upper edge.
The good thing is that now that I have long enough laces (took the ones from the now too big 1901 corset) I can put it on myself.
But next corset I'm going to hand sew! If I want the stitching to look good that's the way! I have said it before, but next time I'm going to make the corset from 1844 from Corsets and Crinolines. And yesterday I found an extremely helpful site, where a woman showed step by step how she had made that corset. It's here, but it's in norwegian.

Comments

[koshka-the-cat.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing that site :)

I tried that corset for myself, but it was very, very not me shaped. By the time I had it somewhat fitting it no longer remotely resembled the intended shape, then I went on vacation and lost the muslin. So it was rather doomed :)

But, I was very curious to what it looked liked finished. It's rather pretty :)

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

It's not very me shaped either I think. I have a proportionally larger bust and smaller hips, but I'm going ot give it a try.

Eva

[koshka-the-cat.livejournal.com]

I think you should, it's a very pretty pattern :)

I have proportionally smaller hips and bust. The hips weren't too bad to deal with, but the bust was just being very uncooperative. I was ending up with all straight lines. Had I not lost the muslin I probably would have spent more time trying to work it out, but by getting lost it just seemed to be trying to tell me something :)