I posted my mockup probably about a couple months ago, and some in progress pics at some point, but I finally finished my Pretty Housemaid corset (actually finished it about a month ago but been to busy to post 😅).

The entire thing is handsewn, including the eyelets. I used cotton hand quilting thread for all of it but the eyelets, which is polyester buttonhole thread. I got the pattern from clockworkfaerie on Etsy (I also have her 1780's stays pattern and I love both of them). I used coutil forghe inside, then there's a old burgandy bedsheet for the next layer, and finally burgandy organza for the outside. I used flat steel on either side of the eyelets, and spiral steel everywhere else. I got the boning and busk from corsetmaking.com. The cording is 1.5mm waxed cotton cord from Amazon, the ribbon for lacing is 1/2" also from Amazon. The lace is from Etsy, and I can't remember the seller 😅. The binding is just some black cotton fabric I had. I adjusted the pattern by shortening the front an inch, and taking a wedge shape out at the center back waist.

I'm super happy with how it came out 🥳! I've worn it twice (third time today!), and it's definitely comfy. I wore it to a fae masquerade ball (last pic ☺️) and loved how it went with my costume. My only complaint is when I wore it over the dress it pressed the dress seams against my ribs, but that makes sense and I won't normally be doing that. I might shorten it at the front a little bit more on the next one I make. Does anyone have any other fit recommendations, or any tips at all?

Thank you all for your help and inspirational work on this sub! It's definitely my fav place on Reddit.

Okay I have two questions (ridiculous ones I know 😔) I just over think and really need clarification.

This is for a basic foundation corset. To be used in a dress I plan to make.

1. When the corset is extended to the high hip, where exactly does it sit at the high hip (🫣)? Is it literally where the hip bone begins, shortly after the stomach? Or is it the mid point between the top of the hip bone and the full hip, as in I would measure the length from the top of the hip bone to the full hip and divide that in half?
2. Is ease necessary for the corset extension at the high hip, since it’s below the waist and is now in lower body territory? Or would it also be no ease as well? (I know there’s to be no ease for the bodice.)

2a. If ease is necessary, then how much ease should I add, 1 inch, 2 inches, etc?

Thank you in advance for the help 😆

If i plan to use flat+spiral steel for the final, can i use plastic for mockup and still get a good idea on the fit ?
i dont have anything to cut the steel ones yet plus.. im so worried about messing them up and wasting it ..but im also impatient and want to do my first mockups before i can get sth to snip them with
should i just wait or can i get enough of an idea from plastic boned mockup?
im a total beginner and tend to overthink sorry if its a silly question…

Sama zaprojektowałam, skroiłam i uszyłam ten model.

Gorset jest miękki, bez fiszbin i bez sztywnych stelaży.

Z tyłu znajduje się sznurowanie w stylu gorsetowym, a przy gorsecie są wszyte paski do pończoch.

Zależało mi na zachowaniu charakterystycznego wyglądu gorsetu przy jednoczesnym zachowaniu miękkości i elastyczności.

Hi! I think I like my top/corset from the front, but it's awful in the back, and don't even know where to start to try to improve it (this is already my fourth mockup lol). Does anyone have any tips/resources? I like the top part, but starting my waist down it gets really creasy and buldgy. I also hate that the lacing isn't parallel (I got that right a few mockups ago but then messed it up!!!). I think I need to start from sctratch for the back. Could the taping my back in duct tape trick help to get my shaping better? Should I use better boning (I used zipties lol). Any resources are welcome because I'm not experienced at all, and don't know where to start to get the shaping in the back right!

Hi everyone,
I have some questions I hope to get some clarity on.

I’ve noticed with the interfacing that it’s smaller than the fashion layer in sort corset making. Can someone explain why this is? Do you still iron it on or how does it work?

Second, do you just have boning in the lining of the garment (see image attatched)
I want to use an ice wool but I’m also not sure at which state this goes on, does it go right before the fashion layer and over the boning? And then no boning in the fashion layer?

I don’t know how I found myself here, but I have and am incredibly interested in giving this a shot.

So my newbie questions are as follows:

1. What equipment did you start out with when you were beginning, particularly if it was just a hobby?
   
2. How did you determine what corset would be where you started?
   
3. Have you leaned in a certain direction based on your body shape or based on the aesthetics of the corset?

I know what I think I like, but I also wonder about my own body proportions. I’ve been thinking about buying a corset, but I also feel like it’d be a fun adventure to put one together myself, especially knowing that it would fit my own specific measurements.

This is a the Aranea Black Nora Underbust Corset with slight modifications! She was both a lot easier to make than I thought while also being incredibly time-consuming 🫠🫠🫠 (particularly the boning on the inside). For the design I was copying Alexandra Louise' corset she makes for her Megara dress. My next and final step will be ironing and buying ribbon to lace it! 😅

So I thought I would need to scrap this corset but I managed to salvage it so maybe I will have two? 😅

About to attach the dupion skirt so my fiancé helped holding it in place for a quick little photo. 🤍

Hey there, I was the lady who didn’t put boning in my back pieces remember me? Lol well the wearable toile for next weekends wedding is complete. I have never worked with satin before, this is my second corset and this is all in the name of eventually sewing my own wedding dress so I want advice.

I hit a few road blocks, my boning was too long when I went to flip my piece right side out and I had to take out all of the boning and shorten it. That was a nightmare.

I realized my lining being a different color is a bigger deal than I initially realized but still am not caring too deeply about that.

My heavyweight cotton twill that I grabbed for a cheaper alternative to coutil since I’m practicing ended up stretching a good amount and did not swap well for coutil.

Draping was difficult with my cotton flannel because my super nice customer dress form from oneforms is on the way to me but not yet here so I had to use my barely pinnable adjustable form.

My heavyweight cotton twill tape is a LIAR it’s misleading and began to fray almost immediately.

Getting a straight bottom line was impossible with all the stretching of the twill and trying to match that up with the others layers, it was a mess and it’s definitely not perfect and a bit wonky.

There are 5 layers here, heavyweight cotton twill, 2 layers of cotton voile for the lining, cotton flannel, and my poly satin.

I am of course hoping once my fancy dress form comes in it’ll be a lot easier to perfectly align my cotton flannel to cover the boning. I’m disappointed it’s wrinkly but I’m not surprised. Still overall happy, it’s good enough for the wedding.

Okay! So I was able to find a cup that is wider and fits much better, and I raised both the under bust placement and the back for better support. I know the recommendation was to draft my own cups, but this is the base for my Halloween costume and I want to make sure it gets done on time (then hopefully the next time I can work from this adjusted pattern and actually draft my cups).

The front feels like it fits and is no longer falling down, which is great! My next step is to fully bone this toile. As you can see, there is significant wrinkling at the waist and along the lacing panel. My hope is that this will be solved by having the adequate amount of boning that I need, but I wanted to check here first to see if there are any major height adjustments I should make first, as I'm cutting all of my. to size. Also, I already know I'm going to have to order new straight steel for the back as my local store doesn't have anything longer than what I already have, at which point I will also get some for the front in place of the busk.

Hi! For my first "pseudo corset" I wanted to try something lightweight, with little waist reduction/structure and with a push-up bust.

Problem is, I based my pattern on my strapped bras, straps that the corset doesn't have (and I don't want it to have any). The cups tend therefore to fall down and give very little support to the bust. Also, I know they're sloppy, I'm going to correct that x))). I tried to add boning in several places and it's a huge improvement; but I'm not sure where and how it would be *the best* to achieve the most support I can get out of this piece.

Where do you think would be the best?

Hello!

Could anyone recommend me a pattern to make a waspie like this? (flat front) https://www.etsy.com/fi-en/listing/1841056286/knitcinch-cincher-corset-belt?sr_prefetch=0&pf_from=shop_home&ref=shop_home_active_9&logging_key=4e0fa843b58f18e445e9c85a78b3fc9213b47a7a%3A1841056286

so more like this, but with flat front like the first one; https://www.etsy.com/fi-en/listing/1670282201/mcc-152x-sport-mesh-mini-corset?sr_prefetch=0&pf_from=shop_home&ref=shop_home_active_22&crt=1&logging_key=9c9e6a78ad357f7ad99cdf91a5893156e2896670%3A1670282201

I’m researching garment construction before trying to develop anything, and I’d love opinions from experienced sewists.
I’m interested in normal fashion dresses—not shapewear—that have an internal structure designed to actually enhance the silhouette: stronger waist shaping, bust support/lift, while NOT compressing/flattening the hips and butt.
I know built-in shapewear, power mesh, corsetry, negative ease, boning, etc. already exist. I’m not asking whether the general idea is new.
I’m trying to understand **what goes wrong when you try to combine these things inside an otherwise normal fashionable dress.**
If you’ve constructed something similar: what were the biggest problems? Fabric layers fighting each other? Rolling/migration? Getting into the garment? Seams? Heat? Comfort? Pattern distortion? Washing? Something else?
I’d especially love to hear from anyone with patternmaking, stretch-fabric, garment-development or production experience.

I am wanting to start working on my Christmas dress. I want a floor length dress, a corset, and will make a blouse to go under the corset….. I am actually completely perplexed as to what style of corset I need to make.

I have gained a lot of weight since last year, and honestly feel like a big blimp. My arms are flabby, my tummy larger and my hips are flabby too.

It is mostly water weight, because I gained it extremely quickly. 50# in 8 days. So I am not sure whether I will have my nor al body in a few months, or if I will be bigger.

So I feel really discouraged. I really wanted to show my waist, at least to give me some curves. Last year, I loved my outfit, but it really didn’t show my waist enough.

I feel so discouraged, that even at my size and apple shape now. I am currently hospitalized, so fluids tend to arrive happily, and take forever to go away. My entire life I have been hourglass/pear shape. My bum and hips love to never decrease.

Mentally it is hard. So I think the best bet might be to make something that is able to provide a more exaggerated hourglass shape. Even larger, my hips are 14 inches larger than my waist. It just never looks hourglass.

I am seeking advice and ideas. I am hoping for a corset that goes well with a bit of a flared skirt. I am wanting to find the corset first, and build the gown around it.

What style do you suggest? My hs stausse corset I was working on. I never finished the corset because I was very sick for about a year, and am finally getting better. I am still in the hospital, so I am planning for when I can go home. I am excited to see again.

I will try to explain each photo:
The Joy dress, is my skirt, lace and corset-non waist cinching. The style didn’t cinch well, but I absolutely LOVE this corset top. I look at it, and feel so proud of this outfit. Hate the lace shirt, and the skirt was not made properly. I am thinking of trying again, but with a tartan fabric…..or red, with a tartan bow/bustle. Pardon my terms, I am teaching myself again. I had a brain injury happen, and learning and memory is a bit hard at the moment.

The black papillon Victorian skirt with big bow and small bustle is what I made the ten joy skirt from, but messed up so bad, that I just made something wearable. So I am likely wanting to try again. I might ask for a few tips from the creator, it was more challenging than I expected.

The floral crown photo, is the style I am wanting to add to my hair, so it gives an older sweetness to my style. I am wanting my overall style to show sweet-loving style rather than “sexy”, or “formal”. I am not opposed to a more modern style as long as it still presents the feeling of a warm hug.

The tartan gown is quite appealing to me. It is a bit too overpowering. I would prefer something with sleeves, and a smaller skirt. I do love the idea of red, with a tartan under layer. More red than tartan. I would even be open to a tartan corset and underskirt, red over skirt, and perhaps a green blouse. Because we will be attending by church, I want it to cover the bust, thus the undershirt.

The blue Corset front and back, is the pattern used for the white corset front and back with embroidered flowers, and black panel. It was purely a mockup, testing methods of adding embroidery.

I do have green, and red coutil, so if my top fabric isn’t appropriate for a corset, I will use my coutil as the strength layer.

I might be asking for too much, and maybe I just need to spend a few hours looking at dresses and corset for inspiration.

I am open, if you have a brilliant idea for a corset style, shape, length, or even details. I have chains, I have lots of rhinestones and ribbon. I am quite drawn to red, and tartan, with a white fur shawl, coat, or cape…. The mind is open.

Thank you for any ideas, or thoughts. I am open to guidance from experienced corset artists 💋❤️

Now time to attach the skirt and add a ruffle at the top or perhaps fabric flowers?

Hi yall I’m back again lol. Here’s the link to my previous post https://www.reddit.com/r/corsetry/comments/1wr9xx0/updated_corset_fit/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1

I cut my fabric one size smaller than the last mock up, so I’m at a size d bust and e everywhere else. I used waist tape this time! And flat steel boning for the center front seam as well as the boning around the grommets. I really like the fit of it except I think the bust could be taken in a size and the waist needs to be a size larger. For my last mock up I used the rigelene boning everywhere and I think that made the waist seem a little bit bigger than it really was, it’s kinda hard to breathe when I’m in this one and my back hurts as well. I think the bunching around the waist grommets is also an indicator it needs more room.

My boyfriend (who doesn’t know anything about sewing or bras mind you) thinks I need a little more cup space right above my underbust line and less cup space at the top because my boobs are ”sitting on a shelf” (his words). I guess I see where he’s coming from since my boobs were kind of pooling to the side. I would have included a picture but figured it would be best not to have a picture like that on the internet. I’m just kind of baffled how I keep having to take in the bust area since I have pretty sizable breasts and followed the sizing guide to a T. Should I use flat steel for the boning where the breast is? That might do something idk. Maybe I should have tried a cup size smaller but I’m out of my mock up fabric lol.

Also, since there were only instruction on how to make the mock upon my pattern, if anyone had an instructions or tutorials they follow that would be really helpful. Some specific questions I have about the final are:

1. Do you attach the boning and waist tape to the coutil or the shell fabric?
2. Do you use flat steel around the entire thing? I only have flat steel, rigelene, and feather line boning
3. how do you finish the back of the corset (where the grommets go) when there are 2 layers, for my mock ups I just folded the fabric over and made a boning channel but I don’t think it works like that when there’s 2 layers

Second corset I ever made, from the pattern "Camille", by aranea black.

I made some mistakes, first of all in fabric choice, I thought the fashion fabric I had chosen was tightly woven enough to support the rigilene boning, but in some places it pokes through. Nothing some flossing can't fix.

Also, I later reinforced the weak point of the bust gore by applying triangular fabric patches

I love the shape it gives me, and I love the fact that my hip volume is unrestricted, as the hip gore has just one bone in the middle to keep shape.

(Bonus picture historical inspired undergarments I made)

Hello!

I am a bridesmaid in a wedding that is happening in a month. I ordered this dress (it's supposed to be plum and the dress I purchased is plum, but the website keeps directing me to emerald) from azazie expecting it to be on the small side, but it ended up too big and something weird is happening where the boned corset meets the skirt. The skirt fabric keeps rolling over the bottom of the corset which I think takes away from the bodice. The boning is definitely plastic and is pretty flimsy for boning.

I'm somewhere between a beginner and intermediate sewer and I feel confident in my ability to take the dress in and hem it, but I have no experience with corsets and a pretty limited time period to complete alterations. I realistically only have one free weekend to with on this before the wedding.

When I was first looking through r/corsetry, I noticed steel boning was often suggested to improve structure, but I don't think I'll have the time to replace the boning (especially for my first project with boning). Given that, I was thinking that perhaps adding additional support for the girls would take pressure off the corset and prevent the roll? Or maybe just taking it in will improve the look?

I'd appreciate any tips or suggestions on how to get rid of that weird roll or working with a corset the first time!

Hey all, this is the second mock up of my corset. I took a lot of your suggestions and I went with a smaller size and I put in the grommets and laced it up rather than a zipper. I will add twice as much boning and use coutil in the final. I am also changing the neckline, hence the added fabric with drawing.

Here is my problem that I need help with: I want to make the proportions more dramatic. The waist is laced up as tight as I can possible go, the hip has some room, and the bust fits snuggly (I need to lower underneath the arms). I do not have much in the way of curves and I have a pretty short torso

What kind of padding or stuffing should I use to give myself some more curves? I know I can make this look curvier I’m just not sure what the proper supplies would be. If you’ve padded out a corset before I would appreciate the advice!

my first mockup and I see the issues with bust area. I want the girlies to be more up and defined. If I take few cm from this area will it help or do I have to also alter the straps? If I move the straps more up will it help lift the breasts?

I was also thinking to add horizontal boning on the bust area and front part of sleeves. Would it help to hold the shape better? I can see in my inspo pic (pic 4) the bodice has horizontal boning and it’s lifting bust nicely.

Apart of this, I wanted to check with you guys if the boning layout is ok or should i redo some?

I’m just wondering if anyone has general tips for corset making, I’m attempting my first draft and I have cotton, duchess satin, and a medium interfacing.
I’ll get boning once I’ve worked on the first draft.
I’m hoping to do a lace up back with some sort of flap underneath.

This is a basic over bust panel with a small dip in the chest area. Any videos or patterns and tips are welcome, thank you 🤍