I don't know if my comments will help at all, but I have a corset with a spoon
busk and the front edge of that corset was straight too... It rounds around the
outside of the busk, there's no real curve in the center section of the busk
where the hooks and bulb-things meet. As a side note, I was disappointed to
discover that the fit/shape of a corset with a spoon busk is pretty much
identical to one with a straight busk. At least on my size 12 figure. (And I
was using the _Corsets & Crinolines_ pattern for the spoon busk corset)
> > However, given the curve along CF, how is that
> > going to work? Following the seam line exactly, the corset
> > front is quite straight until just below the waist, where
> > it suddenly curves inward ending just above my pubic bone
> > (I hope that makes sense). Do you suppose
> > you need a specially made curved busk? Can you short cut
> > around this and either have the busk end before the lower
> > curve or straighten out the seam line? Obviously that is
> > going to change the line of the corset. The pattern
> > indicates the busk runs entirely top to bottom--16.5 inches
> > me. I am concerned that if I get a busk that long that I am
> > going to have it poking me in the pubic bone when I sit down.
> > I already have this problem on my existing 1830s corset when
> > I bend over to tie my shoe or cook. Any thoughts or suggestions
> > are appreciated and thanks in advance!
My advice would be to try it with a straight busk and the curved seam first, at
least in a mock up -- When I was making my S-bend corset I was amazed by how
curvy the seams needed to be in order to be "straight" on the figure, but they
were amenable to flat metal boning (rather then spiral boning).
As for the length of the busk being too much, there
> are 2 dots at
> the bottom of the pattern illustration which makes me think
> maybe they were
> eyelet holes to keep the bottom section of the corset
> together, suggesting
> to me that the busk doesn't go all the way to the bottom of
> the centre
> front, (although this is purely speculation)
There are many examples of Regency corsets whose busks do not go all the way up
or down, and have eyelets that you tie a ribbon though to keep the busk in
place...
-sunny
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