At 12:57 PM 1/30/2006, you wrote:
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I'd recommend against the plastic route. At least against the
plastic boning you can get at JoAnn's -- I'm pretty curvy and have
had two types of trouble with the plastic stuff: (1) in the heat of
wearing it (and possibly lacing tight enough so my chest stays put
- I have about a 10" difference between ribcage and bust line -
almost entirely in the front - the plastic "melts" into my curvy
shape, rather then making me nicely tubular. (2) The ends of the
plastic tweak and buckle something' awful (and they _hurt_ when
they do it, too!).
Thanks for that piece of advice. We have much the same problem -- I
boned an Italian bodice with That Stuff, and found that those ends do
indeed hurt where they decide to poke you -- and they *will* poke you
... I had never tried an Elizabethan, but I want to.
Jerusha, filing away *very* useful information
I never found the Rigilene to be useful at all, and certainly not for
corsets. I use cable ties that I buy at the hardware store (my
current Elizabethan corset has them); cheap and easily available. I
get the 34" ones. They can be cut with heavy craft scissors (or tin
snips); the ends can be rounded with a coarse file (some people
candle them, but I don't bother as it makes for lumpy ends). As long
as you make the stays about 1/2 inch shorter than the casings, they are fine.
Joan Jurancich
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