/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

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It's awful fluroescent dorm lighting and poor white balance choices. I specifically sought out formalwear-grade fabric instead of tissue or stretch lame. This fabric is 78% black silk and 22% lurex, and has the same up close texture as this movie cap. There is no stretch to this fabric, but it's super slinky and has a lot of movement.

None of my chest boning channels are sewn (which I mentioned) and there aren't even stays in the ones that are here... sorry, I guess I shoulda held off on pics. My bad.

There will be 24 half inch spring steel bones in the final, and at least 8 more half inch plastic bones, and topstitching between all of them. There are two layers of stiff bottomweight linen under the top fabric of the bodice. I made a fully boned and fully laced mock-up of middleweight cotton before any of this --there will be none of this awful buckling, promise. The pattern is this one: http://www.marquise.de/en/1700/howto/frauen/18corset.shtml