Here is a corset I finished last week, before I started on the Steampunk Victorian dress
A Shiny Red Corset with Steel Boning and Busk
It's sort of a little waist clincher
The material I used for this is kind of a plastic
The fabric itself was almost like a sheet of just red plastic
I would show you the back to show the ribbon ties,
but then I would be making you through up
Other words, it's really gross to look at
;^^; ;
This has a four clasp steel busk and 16 steel rods/boning
This has a 2"-4" back gap and, in this photo, gives me a 24"or 22" (I'm not completely sure) waist line
This is a huge accomplishment to me, cause my waist line (which I will not reveal) is...well...not very tiny like 24" or 22"
Now I have a nice little corset training...corset!
Or even a nice raving/ clubbing garment
Although, I do need advice for some issues
Such as when I start to loose circulation in my right leg
^^;
Heres a better picture of the curve of the waist with a white background
Now I would like to share some interesting construction info that I did
You might have noticed that there is not bias tape
That's because I used a different method of corset construction
A method that most people don't do for corsets using steel boning
What I did instead was first add the busk,
Then I sewed the top hem (under bust) and bottom hem (hip) together
Leaving the horizontal back seem open
Then turned the whole thing inside out
And what a job that was
After many minuets of poking and clipping corners,
I added the bones
Now how I did that was that I left the sandwich channels, at the bottom hem (hip) open,
To allow myself to simply slip the bones right in their appropriate spaces
Then I toped stitched everything, including the back seem together
Then finished off the corset with adding 5 eyelets to each side of the back
This was a pretty good result
I was expecting a frustrating mess
or just a sewing disaster
But it isn't!
:D
o^._.^o
