mala_14 | Corset mock-up 2

No pictures because my camera battery died while I was trying on my mock-up. I did manage to take one picture, but it sort of looks the same as before, which I think is silly. The picture was also taken before I had really tightened the laces, so that might be why.

Anyways, I made a couple of changes. I added some to the bust and the back hips. I also tried to straighten out the side panels, which were sort of slanted. Now, I looked at a ton of pictures of corsets from this era and some have slanted sides and some don't, so I didn't really need to straighten them out. And that was good, because my changes didn't do much anyways for that. I decided all that was good enough and cut apart my mock-up to use it as a pattern. While I was doing that I made a few very minor adjustments (we're talking millimetres per piece), mostly curving in the waist a bit more, taking a bit off the front hips, and adding a bit all the way around the bust.

Hopefully all the changes and everything will look good in the real thing. I want to get it cut out and baste together the coutil and silk/cotton satin layer this week. I need to order the boning. But I can assemble and insert the busk. I spent today's hockey game reclaiming hardware and the busk from my lime green Halloween corset as well as curving the busk so that it'd be dished. Actually worked fairly well. So more on this later.