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207.8-18 Princess Seam Soft Corset pattern only
$15.00 |
This soft corset is an important link in development from the 18th Century’s style of fully boned stays to the early 19th Century’s long corset with cording, gussets, and removable busk. This corset represents the relaxed attitude towards fit and a more “natural” figure that started in the early 1790s. With princess seams curved for moderate period uplift, this corset creates structure through fit rather than through cording or boning. A busk curved to the individual’s figure serves as both posture reminder and a wrinkle remover.
This corset is not designed for tight lacing even though it has double-flanged metal eyelets. More research into the dating of this type of eyelet is on going but they seem to appear in the mid 1810s along with the grooved bone eyelets.
This style of gusset-less corset lingers until the early 1830s when the new lowered waist-line emphasis requires a different type of body shaping created through gores, gussets, and cording.
FIT:
This soft corset would have been worn over a shift and with a busk that had been curved to the shape of the wearer. It is comfortable to wear and move in with and without the busk. There are additional notes on how to adapt the pattern for the larger busted woman.
FABRIC:
The original fabric was a linen in a satin weave which provides both flexibilty and strength. There is no additional lining or interlining.
CORDING:
The only cording is placed in the fold at center back.
CHOOSING SIZE:
When deciding which size is correct for you to use, measure your rib cage under your bust and your waist, preferably with your underpinnings on. Instructions include various ways to alter the pattern to fit your individual measurements.
There is also a Kit available which includes 1 yard of imported linen sateen weave fabric like the original fabric, brass busk, cording, lacing strings and the 207 pattern and instructions.
You can also just purchase the Brass Busk. 12" long 1.5" wide Brass Busk is based on a period brass busk in the collection of the DAR Museum in Washington, DC. The busk is meant to be shaped to your own figure. You can shorten the busk with tin ships. Comes with Fig Leaf Logo on one end.
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207.18-28 Princess Seam Soft Corset Pattern Only
$15.00 |
1002 Bone Eyelets for Stays & Corset: 20 pieces
A set of 20 real bone eyelets for your use in your period stays and corsets. Based on bone eyelets found in corsets from early 1800 to 1850s.
These bone eyelets are individually made so may vary a little bit from each other iin a set. Easy to put in by using an awl to open the fabric and slip in. The groves eyelet is held in place by the tension in the fabric as the originals were.
These bone eyelets are individually made so may vary a little bit from each other iin a set. Easy to put in by using an awl to open the fabric and slip in. The groves eyelet is held in place by the tension in the fabric as the originals were.
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