No, I haven't found it a problem either: after all, the high waist of the "Cavalier" style isn't as extreme as that of the Empire line. I'm long-waisted, but I make my bodices come down to my lower ribs and wear my bumroll round my waist. It sits on my hipbones and supports the waist of my skirts level with the bottom of the bodice. I wear a corset with my "best" dress, but for ordinary Living History I'm thin enough to get away with bodices lined with strong fabric and lightly boned.
Kate Bunting Librarian and 17th century reenactor >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/02/2006 09:11 >>> >> Hi, >> I think some of you might have misunderstanded my explanations to this. >> I was not reffering to the movie picture costumes, but the cavallier style >> fashion for women. With the high waists. >> The reason why i want the bumroll to be laced to a bodice is that the >> dress waistline is so high over the natural waistline, that it simply >> couldnt be tied arround so high, without slipping down emediately. > >> Bjarne >I haven't found this to be a problem with any of my dresses, and I never >lace the bumroll to the bodice. I just tie it around me where I want it to >stay and it does. I'm pretty short-waisted naturally, but no one else for >whom I've made this style has had any problems with it, either. >Melusine ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
