I've found that boning the tabs makes a huge amount of difference in taking the pressure off the waistline and distributing it over more surface area. I've seen really nasty blisters and abrasions (at the RenFaire) from people wearing tight, tabless corsets. We call it 'corset burn'. Of course, you have to make sure that you are using really flexible boning in the tabs. Super rigid steel bones don't bend the right way to go over hips and can be painful too. Karen Seamstrix
---------- Original Message ---------- From: Alexandria Doyle <[email protected]> To: Historical Costume <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [h-cost] Elizabethan Pair of Bodies for a petite figure. Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 08:58:28 -0500 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 ____________________________________________________________ Be your own boss. Click here for information on starting your own business. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/BLSrjpTEI0t6XOdQL3z5kiCclJb1dRNsiRMh7ezy9Yl5LU61oAWxV6zGgc4/ _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
