"as tough as this dreadfully overcooked meat you've prepared" "and the hair - that ridiculous ridiculous hair" he's so fucking bratty I love him so much
I was going through old episodes and was going to gif this, but....it's just not the same without being able to hear Brennan yell, "TITTIES!" So, video.
I know I haven't been super active here lately but I wanted to share a new hobby I picked up. It's painting dots on rocks. I figured Tumblr is the neurodivergent haven that might understand my love of this hobby. So hang on I'll get pictures.
Yall seem to enjoy my extant garment analyses, so here’s a little primer on corset flossing! Flossing was developed with the advent of corsets as we know them. The intricacy reached its peak at the tail end of the Victorian era. Many of the really elaborate designs were popularized by the sewing machine, which made it possible to easily stitch *through* a bone.
Here are some samplers made by commercial corset manufacturing companies, as a sort of corset R&D! These were potentially used either to select standard designs for mass-produced corsets, or to act as a catalogue for customizable ones!
These two are all designs spanning four bones:
On my center front panels, there’s one spot with several side-by-side bones, which will be a perfect spot for one of those designs.
These designs will be perfect for individual stays:
Some of these are meant for the spaces between bones and so are not technically flossing:
And some of these are for gusset cup decoration, as well as single, double, triple and even quadruple bone arrangements.:
Here are couple of extant corsets with elaborate gusset cup embroidery + ‘simple’ flossing on the bones:
As you can see, not every corset had flossing on every bone! And there was a lot of variation in how elaborate the flossing was.