Spiral steels would be a choice that does not reflect the era of a Dickens Fair, which is c.1830-1860-ish, no? Whalebone, much cording, spring steels, iirc.
My c.1880 corsets, which I made, have spring steel boning and not spirals at all, and they only gave me issues at the tops, where I haven't sewn them at a certain level (feathering them). The bone poked at the top and irritated both my side and my arm. :( I think it an unwarranted assumption to say Victorian=spiral steels. Ann in CT > [email protected] wrote: > > In your Victorian corset, many of the bones are > probably actually spiral steels which have more of the > flexibility of whale bone and bend over the complex curves > of the female torso better than rigid steels. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
