We know the ideal smooth, round and without a visible break. It should be a cinch (cinch!), but it's more a struggle, fit and fashion v. restriction or as I like to think of it T.Rex arms. Modern recreators dispute, condemn, rework, let out a seam. Sometimes to effect, but not always.
I present an assuaging collage, 'cause they didn't always get it right either.
A small and easily gathered sample, if you look you can see it everywhere. |
I'm pretty happy with it's first run, I may tweak it a bit, the tail needs a weight to keep it from flipping and I forgot to add the stays to the channels in front (I only ever bone the front). It was light and crisp and really fun to wear. And that's the goal.
Children of nature....... and taffeta |
Lovely Cynthia, one of the organizers and her not so little man. |
I contemplate Rousseau and his natural man. Uh-huh. |
Heaven in every particular.
In Super-Blurification! (But you can still see the corset line) |
Ever Your Thimble Servant,
Miss Brilliantine