This gorgeous 1880's corset is PURE evil: made as green and villainous as my soul, and speed-sewn in about a week! The result is a gorgeous, two-layer, historically-inspired Victorian corset that is incredibly comfortable to wear, and lightweight to boot!
In this video, I'll walk you step by step how to make a late Victorian corset using historical accurate techniques and materials. I hand dyed this fabric myself, and I’ll take you through the journey from cutting to completion, including the best way to achieve accurate seam lines, how to insert a busk with only mildly accidental innuendos, how to set in gromments the punk rock way, and the easiest way to keep your corset adjustable, even after you finish it! After all, even if Victorian corsets are specifically designed to mold your body, you should still be fitting your corset to your body, and NOT the other way around! 🙃
And yes, I can breathe in this thing quite well, thank you. I can even chase seagulls in it.
This project was actually quite a struggle for me. For those of you who have been around here for a bit, you know that I made the rest of these hand-embroidered Victorian underpinnings earlier this spring. But for some odd reason, I just did not have the motivation to make the corset! I put it off, and put it off, and finally it was a week before vacation, I had an event I needed to wear it to, and it NEEDED TO GET DONE. So I buckled down and sewed this baby in just under a week! It was an exceptional challenge, but I’m so happy with the way it turned out, and I’m so excited to share the process with you—and my villainous, beachy reveal!
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This video only covers the making of the FINAL corset. If you would like to see how I fit this corset, or just learn how to fit Victorian corsets in general, you can click on this video here: [ Ссылка ]
Enjoy the evil Victorian underpinnings? Here's a playlist where I make the Victorian chemise, drawers, and bustle! [ Ссылка ]
Resources:
Pattern: Laughing Moon Pattern 100, the Victorian Underpinnings package: [ Ссылка ] (heavily modified during the mockup process.)
-Cotton sateen (originally white) fashion fabric and black lace from: [ Ссылка ]
-Black coutil from: [ Ссылка ]
-Straight steel boning, spiral steel boning, busk, black lacing, black 00 grommets, grommet setting kit, and 1/2" cotton boning tape from: [ Ссылка ]
-Black 1" cotton twill tape binding from: [ Ссылка ]
-Fiber reactive dye for the fashion fabric from [ Ссылка ]
Chapters:
00:00 The Villainous Victorian Corset
00:46 Final mockup adjustments
02:54 Transferring the mockup to paper
05:10 Original pattern vs. properly fitting pattern
06:26 Grommeting with ~violence~
08:27 Attaching the busk & assembling
12:41 The final corset fitting stage
15:34 Final fitting adjustments
19:12 Adding the boning and waist stay
22:17 The Reveal
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