Yikes. This ad was found in the January 28, 1912 edition of the San Francisco Call. I'll say it again. Yikes.
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I'm sewing my way through every corset pattern in Norah Waugh's book, Corsets and Crinolines. When I complete this challenge I hope to be able to say, "yeah, I can sew," and "yeah, I know a bit about corsets." Here's how the project began, and here are the ground rules.
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Looks like you found Nemo!
ReplyDelete(Yeah, I'm lame.)
That does look majorly complicated, but that gives me an idea... you could get a similar aesthetic by splitting the existing gores in a corset into horizontal stripes/triangles for more interest.
I think those are just made of the basic up-down pieces, with a bust gusset and a hip gusset, then some flappy bits (technical term, there) that fold in toward the front.
ReplyDeleteI have one, so not so hard. You just make a copy!
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