I have committed a grave corsetry sin
Feb. 9th, 2019 10:47 pmI -le gasp- eyeballed a corset pattern!
And guess what!
It ended up being my actual (corseted) waist size! (The bust is overall ~8 inches too small according to a rough measurement, but that was entirely expected considering how curvy I am and how curvy the original pattern isn't.)
I'm trying to re-draw the Ferris-ish corset pattern from De Gracieuse to look more like an actual Ferris waist, or at least what I can guess one would look like based on the copious photos of one on antique-gown.com. That, apparently, involves a lot of 'ehhh let's just duplicate panel 2 and change the shape of the top edge' and 'I'll just make 3 slightly different versions of panel 4 because I like it better than panel 5, except one of them will be half the width of the others because that's what it looks like from these 2 photos'
And guess what!
It ended up being my actual (corseted) waist size! (The bust is overall ~8 inches too small according to a rough measurement, but that was entirely expected considering how curvy I am and how curvy the original pattern isn't.)
I'm trying to re-draw the Ferris-ish corset pattern from De Gracieuse to look more like an actual Ferris waist, or at least what I can guess one would look like based on the copious photos of one on antique-gown.com. That, apparently, involves a lot of 'ehhh let's just duplicate panel 2 and change the shape of the top edge' and 'I'll just make 3 slightly different versions of panel 4 because I like it better than panel 5, except one of them will be half the width of the others because that's what it looks like from these 2 photos'