I'm only a week late posting this~
May. 15th, 2012 09:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miss_philomenaFor my blue and copper dress I need a short bustle, one that won't poke out below the planned knee length skirt. I was all set to start one from scratch when I remembered I had one I started a few years ago. I was working with this Ageless Patterns bustle pattern, but of course like most of their stuff, the directions are nonexistent, and when I couldn't make it work right, I gave up and into the unfinished pile it went. (Looking back now I think part of the problem was using hoop steel instead of springs, so it wouldn't curve like it was supposed to, but that's not the point.)
Anyway, I pulled it out in it's unfinished state, which looked like this.
As you can see, it's basically a series of vertical bones.
What I did to it was to add two horizontal bones, and here's what it looks like now:
Even without a waistband or tapes it forms a nice cage shape just from the pleats.
And on the form:
Finished it's kind of ridiculously large. If I ever decide to do full blown 1880s it'll be perfect, but for the copper and blue dress I think it might be too much. I think tomorrow I'll whip up a smaller one, probably not that exact pattern, more like just a cropped version of my lobstertail bustle.
Anyway, I pulled it out in it's unfinished state, which looked like this.
As you can see, it's basically a series of vertical bones.
What I did to it was to add two horizontal bones, and here's what it looks like now:
Even without a waistband or tapes it forms a nice cage shape just from the pleats.
And on the form:
Finished it's kind of ridiculously large. If I ever decide to do full blown 1880s it'll be perfect, but for the copper and blue dress I think it might be too much. I think tomorrow I'll whip up a smaller one, probably not that exact pattern, more like just a cropped version of my lobstertail bustle.
