Poly-cotton shoe laces. They're sturdy and come with their own aiglets! For corsets especially, look around the local skating rink for skate laces. They're very long and put up with a lot of stress. Since they don't show, I really don't care what they look like as long as they do the job and don't slip or come untied. (I don't like double-knotting just in case I might have to come out of it in a hurry.)
For the side laces on an Elizabethan bodice, I have used plain black laces for dress shoes. Basically, they don't draw attention to themselves, and they're just the right size. But more often, I use 1/4" black grosgrain ribbon with decorative filigree for aiglets. MaggiRos Maggie Secara ~A Compendium of Common Knowledge 1558-1603 Available at your favorite online bookseller See our gallery at http://www.zazzle.com/popinjaypress On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Laurie Taylor <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > Getting ready for Costume College and have a last minute issue. Could have > asked this on the CGW list, but thought the larger group here might give a > larger range of answers/ideas. > > What do you use for lacing your various types of corsets and/or stays? > When > I think about going to the local fabric store and buying the cotton cord > that I would normally use as filling in pipings, I just can't see using it > on stays, especially late 18th/early 19th century. Rattail certainly would > not work either. What do you use that isn't too bulky or to hard, or too > prone to slipping out of the tie? > > Right now, for convenience and in the interest of stash reduction, I'm > using > 1/8" and 1/4" silk ribbon, leftover from my last round of silk ribbon > embroidery. It's not very satisfactory, but I could not figure out a good > alternative. > > Thanks. > > Laurie T. > Phoenix > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
