Yesterday, in passing, I posted a link to a corset: MMA 2000.169.2 When I went into the library to look for a book on walking sticks, I wandered in the fashion history section and noticed Corsets: A Visual History, which features pages and pages of corset advertisements. There was one in a National (that's the … Continue reading Mildly interesting corset identification
Category: corsetry
Early Brassieres
After adjusting my corset pattern this morning so that it would be an inch higher in the front (I realized I had had the whole corset mockup up too high before, and it was actually not as mid-bust as I'd thought), I hesitated. Do I really want to do it? I thought I'd look into … Continue reading Early Brassieres
"Everything You Know About Corsets is False"
I just found this fashion history article via Tumblr, by Lisa Hix on Collectors Weekly. In it, she interviews Valerie Steele, director of the Museum at FIT, on the subject of the corset. The main points: women did not tight-lace down to thirteen inch waists, corsets did not permanently deform the body and cause life-threatening … Continue reading "Everything You Know About Corsets is False"
Today I made a mockup!
This is a big deal for me, normally I put my trust in my calculations and piece in fabric if I need to. So after taking Owen (younger brother) to his dentist appointment and getting a bagel lunch at Panera, I went home and started cutting out the pieces for the 1911 corset from these … Continue reading Today I made a mockup!
Stays ponderings
So ... I didn't actually do any sewing last week, and since I have my internship over the next couple of days I won't work on the corset sew-along until Thursday at the soonest. (Need to scrounge up some mock-up fabric ...) Last night, though, after some encouraging words of advice from Kelsey of Historically … Continue reading Stays ponderings
Mimic of Modes 