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1880s Style coutil corset: final on mannequin

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

Features a high back, spoonbusk, and exterior boning channels.

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1880s coutil corset: construction

Monday, June 21st, 2010

Busk inserted and constructing the body of the corset:

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1880s style coutil corset: mock-up & construction testing

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

I’m working on this new 1889s style corset for a client. The final corset will either be in natural or a fleshtone coutil with coutil boning channels. I’m tempted to add a lace top edge to the final corset. But until then I’ve drafted up the pattern, constructed the mock-up and decided to try out bias cut coutil boning channels.

Here is the sampler of possible colors for the project:

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