sick

I have definitely got a cold. I've had that stinging feeling in my throat and nose for at least a week and was wondering why it never turned into a real cold. Well, today it did, so I stayed home from the water aerobics and went ot my job instead. Now I'm just trying to get enough energy to start writing on the sector on male clothing in the 15th century. Yesterday I read a really amazingly detailed description of a garment in those legal notes I've been working on. So I wonder, does anybody else have references to pleats being held by stay tapes on the inside of the garment as early as 1458?

More corset sighs

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.