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Corset Mockup Struggles
Aug. 31st, 2016 01:24 amI took in the corset fairly significantly in the back and side-back pieces (1.5" out of the back piece, and .75" out of the side-back piece) at the side-back seam. It did fix the lacing gap issue, and surprisingly, it made the bust tight enough that I decided to go back to the original size CF bust gussets.
However, (and I don't know if this was a change or just something I somehow did not notice before), I realized that I am getting almost no reduction in the waist, and literally no reduction or even compression around the stomach. In fact, not only is there no compression, but from just below my belly button and down, the corset is not even touching my stomach, even though the CF boning piece is curved to create the natural form belly. I swear it wasn't doing this before, or else I'm sure I would have noticed. And of course, I have absolutely no idea how to fix it, but obviously, this isn't right!
Where my finger is is where I stop feeling compression. Notice how this is still quite a bit above my waist!
If you see the yellow/red dots (or where my finger is), this is where the corset is basically leaving my body. I don't know if this is a boning issue, a "this corset is stretching with each successive try-on" issue, or actually a patterning/fit issue. Any ideas?
I also realized I need to be really careful with my lacing gap, because I can pretty easily close it all the way at the very bottom, but then it won't give me the right shape in back. I think it's just that I'm too squishy. It was more comfortable once I loosened the lacing and evened out that gap. That said, I'm pretty sure all of these pictures were from before I fixed that gap, except for the very last one in this post.
However, (and I don't know if this was a change or just something I somehow did not notice before), I realized that I am getting almost no reduction in the waist, and literally no reduction or even compression around the stomach. In fact, not only is there no compression, but from just below my belly button and down, the corset is not even touching my stomach, even though the CF boning piece is curved to create the natural form belly. I swear it wasn't doing this before, or else I'm sure I would have noticed. And of course, I have absolutely no idea how to fix it, but obviously, this isn't right!
Where my finger is is where I stop feeling compression. Notice how this is still quite a bit above my waist!
If you see the yellow/red dots (or where my finger is), this is where the corset is basically leaving my body. I don't know if this is a boning issue, a "this corset is stretching with each successive try-on" issue, or actually a patterning/fit issue. Any ideas?
I also realized I need to be really careful with my lacing gap, because I can pretty easily close it all the way at the very bottom, but then it won't give me the right shape in back. I think it's just that I'm too squishy. It was more comfortable once I loosened the lacing and evened out that gap. That said, I'm pretty sure all of these pictures were from before I fixed that gap, except for the very last one in this post.