Paper corset mockups

It's not much, but at least it's something costumey! Plus I have some sort of plague that's been hanging on for a week now, so that's another reason for the lazy.

Anyway, I bought two late 1870s corset patterns from Ageless Patterns a while back, when I decided I wanted to branch out into natural form (in an effort to be More Excited about Victorian costuming!). I am (now) aware that at least one of them is online for free, but I didn't and don't feel like deciphering all those shapes drawn on top of each other! If laziness costs me $6 apiece, so be it.

So, our contenders tonight are an 1876 Corset for Cuirass Basques and an 1877 Coutil Spoonbill Corset - the former of which you may recognize as the one the_aristocat and jenthompson have both made (no pressure there...right??). I suspected from the outset that I'd want to make the gored pattern, but decided I'd get both, Just In Case. Tonight I traced, cut out, and taped together the pattern pieces as-is, on paper, just to get a feel for how they look and how they'll go together.
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