Corset photos!

[ktlovely]

I'm not a fan of the lighting, but when you take photos in your teensy house after dark, you work with what you've got.

Also, the wrinkling bothers me, but the physics in my brain tells me that once I stitch the bones tightly into the channels that should get better, if not disappear. The wrinkling is, I believe, caused by the bones not adequately supporting the fabric vertically, so if they're tight in the channels, the fabric shouldn't be able to buckle like that, right?



See, that's about how big I meant the gap to be. Mike had me laced down to about an inch, which gave quite the impressive shape.

Also, I'm kind of liking my hair as it's growing out. Total side note, I know, but I think I mentioned how I'm growing my hair out now that I'm out of college and not carrying a backpack all the time. It's finally getting noticeably longer to me, but is still a nice shape and fuller than if I'd had lots of layers put in. (Compare to this picture of the cut when it was new.)


And a bonus picture of my hardware all laid out for the s-bend and Silverado corsets. S-bend is on the left, Silverado is on the right. I went through and laid everything out in order when I got the shipment, just to make sure.


Also, Sahara is on. I love that move way more than I probably should.

Comments

[lackofsatin.livejournal.com]

Dang girl, you did a good job and it looks great on you!

[princess-mia.livejournal.com]

Wow, looks like more than just a little bit of work is going into it.;)

[this-gypsy.livejournal.com]

Oooooh....I want one. Wow. I think I like this design out of all the corsets you've made. It curves nicely!

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Hi! I just added you. You look like you have so much fun with your costumes and balls! I also commented here:
http://rvqavalon.livejournal.com/363257.html

I went to a Baptist school too. I'm a Reformed Baptist though, which is probably closer to Presbyterian. But anyway, your school must do some awesome plays. We never had a specific costume maker in ours. We had to get our moms or grandmothers to do the sewing, if there was any, and it was only very simple. More often it was clothes from thrift shops. But I loved it all! I was on stage, but I loved the backstage world too. In college as well. During college I did get to be in one opera with the community opera chorus, and those were fun costumes, kind of peasanty corsets and bright colors.

[ktlovely.livejournal.com]

Hi, yay! Good to meet you. :) I replied over there specifically about the ball and boys in costume.

The plays at my old high school have definitely improved over the years. Back when I was in junior high, they were about like you described. Then, though, we got a new principal (well, re-hired an old staff member) and he really raised the bar. He had really high standards and not achieving them just didn't ever seem like an option. Probably the beginning of the "good stuff" was in 2004, when I was a senior--we did Fiddler on the Roof, and then every year after that was grander. Last year, for Sound of Music, the director ended up being someone else, which was also cool because the new one wasn't such a micromanager, so we had people coming out of the woodwork with wonderful and diverse skills that never had a chance to shine before. Really neat! Especially for an itty-bitty private school.

I don't consider myself "A Baptist" even though I went to a Baptist school. If asked, I usually say I'm nondenominational Protestant. The area in which I live, though, is heavily Baptist/Christian Reformed, so I know lots of both...and a smattering of Wesleyan, Vineyard, Presbyterian, and Catholic, among others. So far, I haven't found a "perfect" denomination to call myself, since a lot of it comes down to traditions that just aren't such a huge deal for me or for my family. Mostly it comes down to faith, for us, which means that observations (or not) of specific traditions are pretty low-pressure for us, as is finding a specific name to call ourselves.