In a message dated 1/30/2006 3:50:05 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The other question, is whether to use the plastic > boning, or go the metal route *************** I prefer metal. In Honnisette's book she mixes the two....some metal in the front point...and scattered with plastic throughout the front pieces... to keep it rigid and at the CB for strength at the lacing. That seems OK to me too. The whalebone in these things can be quite thick and as rigid as metal. And quite frankly they don't make metal boning as stiff as they used to, it is very flexible. If you can get 1/8" metal boning. you might like that. On "Last of the Mohicans" the boned jackets I made, and some corsets were boned with hoop wire....sometimes the 2 strips in their casing, sometimes taken out and used one at a time. The leads corsets were all 1/4" metal boning. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
