Sabrina

I still need to do recaps of my two latest costumed adventures and show my finished 1845 striped white dress, but I'm just not feeling like it today. I should have time this week to get to some of that. Technically the 1845 dress isn't completely done; it has all the eyes sewn on, but only half of the CF hooks. I'm so over it now though and thinking about the next thing.

The next project is going to be my ruffly, floofy sheer early bustle dress. I've wanted one for a while now. But the first part needs to be a corset cover. I am thinking something like this one from the Met:


Pretty plain and simple. I have some lawn I can use for it, but most of the examples I looked at seemed like they used something a little thicker. Any knowledge on what would be suitable? My other point of contention is on where the shoulder should hit. Looking at pictures, paintings, and photographs, it looks like a lot of the time the lining or corset cover was cut like a ballgown bodice with the strap on the point of the shoulder or just off the shoulder and that it was more rare for it to actually be on the shoulder. However, that seems like it'd be annoying to wear, so I'm not sure that I want to go that route. Any opinions?

Links to show the more off-the-shoulder cut and people in sheers with the lining/corset cover off the shoulder:
www.pinterest.ca/pin/79024168433112380/
www.pinterest.ca/pin/99853316715353088/
www.pinterest.ca/pin/565131453234325043/
www.pinterest.ca/pin/565131453234325010/
www.pinterest.ca/pin/565131453234324897/
www.pinterest.ca/pin/565131453220659698/
www.pinterest.ca/pin/565131453231122690/