Five or nine pieces

I draped out the underbodice for yardage purposes as your general corset style job, with princess seams and ending up with seven pieces. The book says the outside of the underbodice is five pieces. Two fronts with double vertical darts, two side backs and a center back. The lining is nine pieces but it doesn't say what they are so I will keep thinking on that.

I drafted one of these dress fronts with the vertical darts. After making it up in muslin, I'll figure if I can then cut it down to make corset-like fronts. It should work but I'll probably have to do something about that side dart.

Bones

Got two rolls of spiral steel boning and some tips in the mail and the only reasonably sized (for this) bolt cutters they had at the store. Now I can figure out what width of silk ribbon I want to use to make casings for the bones.

Skirt support B

I drafted another version of the skirt support. This muslin version won't stand out, but it should work once all the boning is added to the real thing. Besides that for shaping, I wonder if I won't have to add something else as a foundation to the foundation to make sure everything remains cool when I add four tiers of buckram to it. Oh and I guess I put it on backwards since everything opens on the front of this thing, but I'm just checking the basic sizing.

Other stuff

Here's the lace for the hem of the slip.

And the lace for the bodice. Does this look like the real thing? I'm going to say no, but I had to use the vouchers so I had to pick something from the store.

Drafting

And I've done some drafting, but just to get yardages for now. That's close enough to a sleeve on top.

For future reference

Thinking about parts of Part 2. Have some ivory silk dupioni I will mock the skirt and cummerbund up out whenever Part 1 is finished, then find some faille. For now, I don't have any vouchers left, but I do have arms.

Skirt support placeholder

Should be a picture here, but there isn't. Maybe next time.

And a cummerbund

I didn't know that was the correct spelling, but I'm a retired spelling bee champion so I'm not in top shape. Needs reshaping, but this is just to figure out yardage and Part 2 isn't coming up anytime soon.

Then you got yer bodice

I got enough vouchers for Part 1

Which I can figure out after I start making up some basic pieces. Here's some work on the underbodice. Ignore my wrinkles. I just put all this stuff back on quick for pictures.

It comes with instructions

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

This makes sense

So I was reading this book.