Oooh, we didn't think to add straps. Maybe she can salvage it with straps!
Thanks for the idea! 

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Melanie Schuessler
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 5:08 AM
To: Historical Costume
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Elizabethan Pair of Bodies for a petite figure.

Right, but without straps, yes?  I'm saying that the problem she had  
probably arose from not having straps rather than not having tabs.   
Also that she could add boned tabs (though not easily, as the boning has to
go all the way up into the corset) and that would help some, but that adding
straps would help more (and be much simpler!).  My phrasing did assume that
the corset already had tabs--sorry about the confusion.

Melanie


On May 22, 2009, at 3:23 AM, Sharon Collier wrote:

> I'm confused; she did bone it, just made it without tabs.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:h-costume- 
> [email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Melanie Schuessler
>
> Ah--that can cause real problems.  Boning the tabs will help in that
> situation, but adding shoulder straps will help more.
>
> I should clarify that I'm not against boned tabs.  They're great.
> But if you're putting a slender person in their first corset, and  
> there's no
> boning in the sides and back, I think they're more work than  
> they're worth.
>
> Melanie Schuessler
>
>
> On May 21, 2009, at 3:30 PM, Sharon Collier wrote:
>
>> Hers didn't have shoulder straps.
>>
>>
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