It is too small!!!

[frualeydis]

I just tried on the fully boned corset and there's a 6 cm gap! And it's not exactly comfortable then either. I took the pattern from a too large corset, so I took it in a couple of centimetres. I didn't count on it being such a large difference between a fully boned corset and an only partially boned corset. When it's laced too tight to be comfortable, I'm still larger than when I'm wearing my green kirtle, so the boning definitely takes up space.
So now I have several options:

1. Take out half of the boning, either putting just one reed in every channel or having two reeds in every other channel, and see if that helps.

2. Make extra panels at the sides. That would look a little odd with the tabs and I have also run out of reeds.

3. Exchange the reed for something flatter, like plastic whalebone.

4. Finish it as it is and continue to loose weight.

5. Open it in the back and make it into a back- and frontlaced corset.

Of course number four is my favoured solution, but I'm not sure I would loose enough. Maybe taking out boning would be the best solution, because I may never be able to wear it comfortably with the Anthonis Mor dress, and that was sort of my idea.

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[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

Oh I don't remember seeing that dress linked to before-- I like that one quite a lot! What era is that one? I want to learn more about that one. I really like the buttons at the chest and the smooth waist panel. That's really flattering-looking.

I admit my instinctive understanding of metric measurements are pretty bad, but 6 cm doesn't seem like *all* that much. #4 wouldn't be unreasonable!
Although given that you have to take cortisone-- those are so terrible. They just make you swell up. I don't know if counting on continuing to lose weight would be such a good idea-- although I don't know you well enough to judge, of course. it would just make me feel so terrible, to be ill and then have this feeling of failure if you didn't manage to do so...

But ugh, what a pain. I'm so terrible at dealing with these kinds of frustrations-- I really want to get into making corsets, but I know that the first setback like that I experienced would turn me off it so thoroughly... Which is why I'm still nerving myself up to picking my first project to start. I can barely sew, but I really really want to learn...

Anyhow, good luck.

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

I will only take cortisone for 3 months. At least that's the plan now.
The dress is from the middle of the 16th century and I made a somewhat rambling dress diary (http://web.comhem.se/~u31138198/diary1.html) about it.

/Eva