I never found the tabs to be all that useful - until I had less difference between hip and waist measurements. then the tabs were useful for provide a bit of bulk over the hips and creating the illustion that I had a waist again. And that is without boning the tabs...
alex On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Melanie Schuessler <[email protected]> wrote: > Either one will work, but view A will be more comfortable. If she isn't > curvy, she doesn't need all the boning around the back on view B. And the > boned tabs aren't so important for spreading the stress out over the upper > hip if she doesn't really have hips. > > I would encourage you to talk to her about tying her farthingale to her > corset if she's wearing a farthingale. You'll need to put in eyelet holes > if she agrees (and the drawing from the pattern cover seems to show > them--they were there in the original). This is especially important for > figures with no hips to speak of, as the farthingale will just slide down if > it's not tied to the corset. You can see how mine works here: > http://www.faucet.net/costume/period/under.html > > Best of luck, > Melanie Schuessler > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > -- So much to do and so little attention span to get it done with… _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
