Semi-positive
Sep. 4th, 2013 03:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotI grommeted those stays faster than I've grommeted anything. This is my newest useless talent. I'm having mixed feelings on the stays at this point. The main issue, I think, is that I shouldn't have lazed out and cut the fronts on a fold. I thought if the whole front edge was angled, it would be okay, but you really do need that angle in the middle of the edge to control the stomach. Or something. My stomach is vastly not controlled (why did I think this would work in the first place, I'm not sure). I've been trying to find pictures of other people's front-lacing stays and failing to get more than a few, which is because other people are clearly smarter than me on this subject and don't try to turn a back-lacing pattern into a back-and-front-lacing pattern. But as a loner who lives alone, I just didn't feel like I could make back-lacing ones and be able to get in and out and in and out as fitting required.
The stitches are popping at the bottom of the side seams, so I think I'm going to do some double-threaded whipstitches there for safety.
I haven't put in the horizontal bones yet, or grommeted it all the way up to the top edge - I wasn't sure where I was going to cut it down to - but I don't think it'll be terrible. Some of the shaping problems are just issues with my body. I don't know if it's a function of my ribcage or what, but my breasts are just set very, very widely apart. That means that even when the stays are squishing them inward, they don't really touch and I don't get that cleavage line everyone else has that I'm quite jealous of, and it means that the eventual shape I get is flatter (since there's no mutual support at the center). In 3/4 view I usually have a decent look, but in profile there's often a problem. I do have some bowing out at the top in profile, which is better than my Victorian corset, but it's really not ideal. And I have no clue what I can do about that, fitting-wise. Keeping my fingers crossed that the horizontal bones will help to hold out the front and make it more curved. But if they don't, I'm just thinking I'm going to have to deal with the fact that there's nothing I can do about it.
In sum, they're not bad enough that I'm going to take them apart and fix anything (who do you think you're talking to), but when I eventually make new ones with this pattern I am going to make some changes.
The stitches are popping at the bottom of the side seams, so I think I'm going to do some double-threaded whipstitches there for safety.
I haven't put in the horizontal bones yet, or grommeted it all the way up to the top edge - I wasn't sure where I was going to cut it down to - but I don't think it'll be terrible. Some of the shaping problems are just issues with my body. I don't know if it's a function of my ribcage or what, but my breasts are just set very, very widely apart. That means that even when the stays are squishing them inward, they don't really touch and I don't get that cleavage line everyone else has that I'm quite jealous of, and it means that the eventual shape I get is flatter (since there's no mutual support at the center). In 3/4 view I usually have a decent look, but in profile there's often a problem. I do have some bowing out at the top in profile, which is better than my Victorian corset, but it's really not ideal. And I have no clue what I can do about that, fitting-wise. Keeping my fingers crossed that the horizontal bones will help to hold out the front and make it more curved. But if they don't, I'm just thinking I'm going to have to deal with the fact that there's nothing I can do about it.
In sum, they're not bad enough that I'm going to take them apart and fix anything (who do you think you're talking to), but when I eventually make new ones with this pattern I am going to make some changes.
