#victorian corset

[thecozycuttlefish]

I made a thing. I've never done corsetry before so I'm just as shocked as you are that it worked.

[bennyssewingblog]

Aranea Black shut down her website and all her free corset patterns are gone

I’m absolutely gutted... it sounds like shes getting out of the corsetry business completely. I really hope she is doing okay, this can’t have been an easy decision to make. I believe her Patreon is still up as of right now (Jan 21, 2023) but it will be shut down at the end of the month (from what I’ve heard).

The good news is that I’m part of a Reddit group that is essentially trading the free corset pattern files that they have already downloaded. One person is working on a depository of all her free patterns, which I will share when finished.

In the meantime, I have amassed quite a few patterns since last night, so if there is anything you wanted to download but missed the chance, please send me a message and if I have what you’re looking for, I’ll send you an email or Google Drive link.

[suitsyoumaam-blog]

Getting tightlaced by Melanie Talkington

source : youtube

[vintagefashionplates]

In the eighteenth century, the corset imposed a more-or-less conical configuration to the upper torso. By the late nineteenth century, a more softly rounded female form was preferred. This extended even to the body in profile. The straight and rigid busks of the eighteenth century gave way to busks that not only curved into the waist but also rounded out over the belly. 

Designer: Maison Léoty (French) Date: 1891 Culture: French Medium: silk

Credit Line: Gift of Miss Marion Hague, 1945

(via Maison Léoty | Corset | French | The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

[statelibraryqueensland]

Details from Mathilde Helene Lundager (nee Biltoft) as a young woman, Rockhampton, ca. 1881

Original high res image located here: LINK

[perfectlittleparcel]

This corset just needs to be flossed then it can be shipped off- commission for a repeat customer. Top fabric is 100% silk, with a spoon busk, waist tape and false whalebone boning.

[porcelaineye]

from lacis museum of lace and textiles

[pdxstitch]

1870s and 1880s decorated corsets, from the collection of the NY Metropolitan Museum of Art

First image: circa 1880 European silk corset in very bright yellow. Trimmed with wide black lace at top and bottom. Decorated with black flossing and contrasting black gores across the bust.

Second image: circa 1880s American corset. Made of bright red cotton. Trimmed with white lace around the top, the bottom hem is bound in white. The whole corset has contrasting white or off-white topstitching. The front opening is embroidered with curving S-shapes in off-white thread. The corset has four triangular gores in the bust. The gores are decorated with more embroidery in abstract, curving shapes.

Third image: circa 1876 French corset in cream colored silk printed with pink flowers. Bottom hem is bound in the same floral silk. The top is trimmed with delicate cream-colored lace. There is a large hook fastener at center front, below the waist. This isn't commented on in the Met's description, but I would guess this would have been paired with an eye fastener on the inside of a bodice, to keep the bodice from shifting while worn.

Fourth image: circa 1880s British silk and cotton corset. Main fabric is dark (black) with all-over pattern of small, red, seven-petalled flowers (reminiscent of cherry blossoms). Top is trimmed with black lace.

[thecozycuttlefish]

[mikuyuuss]

POV: They are secretly judging you.

Zelink in victorian era au!

[suitsyoumaam-blog]

Izabela Pitcher, part 4

Source: Her instagram

[vintagefashionplates]

Vintage handmade leather corset

Designer: Maison Léoty (French) Date: 1870–89 Medium: leather, steel

Credit Line: Gift of Miss Elizabeth Hicks, 1950

(via Maison Léoty | Corset | French | The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

[marzipanandminutiae]

Area Woman Wearing Custom "Pretty Housemaid" Corset; Comfiness Levels Off The Charts

[autumn-may]

Darkqua in a 1916 dress i found on pinterest

(reference below cut)

Why do dresses from 1914-1917 go so hard. Why were they cooking

[une-femme-de-lettres]

Brain : Shouldn't we be writing right now...?

Me : ...so I'm gonna make a 19th century corset entirely by hand!

Brain : But...

Me :

[beggars-opera]

I think all the drama over corsets would be a lot less if we stopped seeing them as a binary of either I'm Comfortable In One So They're Great or They Were Designed To Torture And Subjugate Women.

Think of them a little bit like shoes. Pieces of clothing that have a very important function, but they're going to run the gamut of comfort and the idea of not wearing them at all feels very anti-establishment altogether, even if a lot of people would be happier that way. There are ways of making shoes that don't pinch or mess up your legs, many of us choose not to wear them and instead go with heels because of fashion and dress codes. Tightly laced corsets are the stilettos of the 19th century; few people are going to go all the way and do themselves damage. Plenty of people are just wearing something snug but comfortable, and a decent number of people are walking around facing what we would consider mild discomfort and not really thinking that anything else is an option, because anything else isn't an option. Bras weren't invented yet, so if you wanted any support at all that's what you had.

I'm not saying that wearing an inherently restrictive piece of clothing like a corset is more comfortable than a modern bra. We're not accustomed to it, so obviously it feels foreign and uncomfortable to us. I'm saying that a bra isn't that comfortable either, and lacks some of the good features of a corset, like back support. But because bras are normal to us we don't judge them in the same way we do a corset. We spend a lot of time negating the agency of historical women without taking a good look in the mirror.