How to properly lace a corset

How to correctly lace up your corset, by Angela Friedman (shop custom corsets here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/AngelaFriedman )

How to properly lace a corset (have no idea if this is correct, but pinning anyway) :)

My journey into waist training and quest for a waist trainer that works for me plus reviews of the ones I test.

A corset is a silhouette's best friend -- it cinches in the waist, lifts the bust line and improves posture. When a corset is properly laced, the wearer looks equally attractive coming and going. Because it's a difficult task to lace a corset-back dress if you're the person wearing it, ...

My first pair of properly fitting stays, front- and back-laced with an additional stomacher. The pattern is similar to the picture but taken from Norah Waugh’s Corsets and Crinolines. It’s my second try to that particular pattern, but the first one was very sloppily done and more of a mock-up than finished stays. This pair is made of two layers of linen and boned with stripes of the kind of plastic that windshields of MC helmets are made off. In the back some of the boning is replaced with…

Corset, 1876, American, via The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Known as the ‘Bon Ton’, this corset was awarded the bronze medal at the Centennial Exposition. The fine embroidery r…

How to lace your corset (Properly)

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While I sort out the elastic issues for the corselet I thought I'd use the time to take better pictures of the garments I've made. Here is a much (much!) better photograph of Norah Waugh's Corsets and Crinolines 1780 stays. Even I can find nothing to complain about.

I haven’t done much sewing during this summer at all as you may have noticed since this blog has been rather dead. This is also because I h...