[h-cost] Elizabethan Pair of Bodies for a petite figure.

This has been cross posted to another list so sorry if you get it twice. I've offered to help a friend make her first Elizabethan outfit and I am not sure about the best style of corset to recommend as her body type is exactly opposite to mine. She is short, very slim with almost no hips or bust

Re: [h-cost] Elizabethan Pair of Bodies for a petite figure.

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

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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

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Re: [h-cost] Elizabethan Pair of Bodies for a petite figure.

Yes, but this version of the corset doesn't have boning in the sides and back--only down the front. On a slender figure, it's not really a problem unless you've got bone ends digging into your waist. And I doubt someone as slight as the client described will lace too tightly (which can

[h-cost] Eleanor of Toldeo portrait?

While wandering the web last night, came upon this - http://www.needlework-tips-and-techniques.com/blackwork-cuff-on-an-italian-r enaissance-gown.html Has anyone seen this portrait before, or have any idea of its attribution? If it's real (Eleanor or not) I'd love to see a better image and

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Sorry if that link is broken - here's a tiny one- http://tinyurl.com/phw3oj Liadain Computer set in Blind Old Lady Giant Font Mode THL Liadain ni Mhordha OFO You get a wonderful view from the point of no return... wildernesse, the Outlands http://practical-blackwork.blogspot.com

Re: [h-cost] Eleanor of Toldeo portrait?

I've seen the painting on the net and we discussed this a while back. Please don't think I am a know-it all on this, but here is what I know and have studied. Here's the original story. A BBC correspondent has returned a Renaissance painting of Eleonora of Toledo to a German museum after

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Interesting! Thanks! I didn't think she looked quite right but couldn't decide why - wrong person? Victorian copy? Wasn't sure... But still an interesting blackwork bit I don't have in my collection! Liadain Off on a new track THL Liadain ni Mhordha OFO You get a wonderful

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Hi Elizabeth, The link in this email does not appear to work for me... ? I receive an SSL error...I tried a few variations of the domain to no avail. Sidney On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Elizabeth Walpole ewalp...@grapevine.com.au wrote: This has been cross posted to another list so

Re: [h-cost] Elizabethan Pair of Bodies for a petite figure.

My daughter is thin and made a corset without tabs. She has not been happy with it, as it transfers all the weight of the farthingale and skirts to her waist/back. She now wishes she'd made one with tabs to help distribute the weight better. Remember, thin women don't have as much padding as we

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I took loose the bottom of my old corset and added tabs. In the spaces I added longer boning, too. It helped tremendously. I like the grommets and the ties to hold them together. My new one doesn't have those... YET. After wearing the farthingale and it being a bit too long, the grommets and

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For some reason the website is down at the moment but you can see the pattern on this page http://www.longago.com/medievalwomen.html (6th item from the top) Essentially there are two patterns based on the two extant Elizabethan corsets, the Effigy bodies and the Dorothea Sabine von Neuberg bodies.