corset cover underway

[mandie_rw]

I've finished a good chunk of the corset cover today - put my pattern pieces that I'd made for the too-small bodice to good use and chopped them up to get a pattern for a corset cover! Seems to have worked reasonably well so far; I trimmed off the tails and ignored the darts and took off the high neckline and called it Good Enough.

I made it of linen, mainly because I had 11 yards of linen on top of a pile whereas I couldn't find the couple of yards of nice joann's muslin that I'm still pretty sure I have left. Somewhere... Whatever, I like linen better anyway.

I did consider sleeves - those tiny little sleeves you often see on corset covers and chemises that are more like sleeveless chemises got snobby about things - but that sounded like work, so I decided, not. Plain old sleeveless corset cover. "Plain" being a relative term, because apparently plain underwear in late Victorian times was just about a felony offense. So I put somewhat-crappy-joann's eyelet round the neckline and am in the process of putting it around the armscyes too. I think I can finish that tonight, then tomorrow I just have to put the neck drawstring in and do the buttons/buttonholes. Not Bad.