Well, it's interesting

[atherleisure]

I finished knitting the body and straps of my 1868 corset. I need to sew the buttons on to see exactly what I need to do to it, but I can definitely say that it's too big and that it's very high-waisted. I know that the fashionable waist in 1868 was slightly above the natural waist, but think this takes it a little further than that. After I have buttons on it, I'll decide whether the straps need to be lengthened and where it needs to be taken in. I'm not going to knit the edging around the neck until that point.

In the meantime, here's a picture laid flat because the dummy is inaccessible. My tape measure is also inaccessible so I can't get measurements just yet.