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c. 1925 Corset
Jan. 25th, 2021 08:54 pmI finished the c. 1925 corset from Corsets and Crinolines a week or two ago. Since 1920's underwear starts to feel rather too modern to post pictures of me online in it and it looked awful on the dress form, I took pictures of a pillow wearing the corset. It looks better on me, but this is as good as it's going to get.
I made a mock-up, and it seemed like it was going to be fine except that I needed to shorten the waist as usual. There was some wrinkling in the back, but I thought I could fix that with adding boning along the seams since some of these corsets had more boning in them than the one in the book. I took 3/4" off the top to deal with the short-waistedness. Once I had put it together, I realized that simply boning the back seams wasn't going to cut it. It really was rather too small through the hip. I briefly contemplated adding more room to the hip, decided that was more work than I cared to invest in this, and took a huge tuck across the back at the waist and tapered it to nothing across the side seams. It looks passable, no one will see it anyway, and the 1920's are far from my favorite period so I really didn't care.
With an actual bust to take up some of the space in the front, the top edge is more even on me than it is on the pillow.
Anyway, it's done. It's not going to be one of my favorite projects ever, but it will serve its purpose. And it drove home something I already knew - don't mock up a corset out of sateen scraps; use something more the weight of the final fabric.
I made a mock-up, and it seemed like it was going to be fine except that I needed to shorten the waist as usual. There was some wrinkling in the back, but I thought I could fix that with adding boning along the seams since some of these corsets had more boning in them than the one in the book. I took 3/4" off the top to deal with the short-waistedness. Once I had put it together, I realized that simply boning the back seams wasn't going to cut it. It really was rather too small through the hip. I briefly contemplated adding more room to the hip, decided that was more work than I cared to invest in this, and took a huge tuck across the back at the waist and tapered it to nothing across the side seams. It looks passable, no one will see it anyway, and the 1920's are far from my favorite period so I really didn't care.
With an actual bust to take up some of the space in the front, the top edge is more even on me than it is on the pillow.
Anyway, it's done. It's not going to be one of my favorite projects ever, but it will serve its purpose. And it drove home something I already knew - don't mock up a corset out of sateen scraps; use something more the weight of the final fabric.
