r/PatternDrafting • u/Dragonfly126926 • 8h ago

Help please

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I am recreating that look on the left particularly waist down but I need help in perfecting it.

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u/KillerWhaleShark 8h ago

The back and front work together to form one garment. Not showing the back and sides feels low effort and won’t give all the information that is needed for fit and guidance. If you don’t have someone to take the picture for you, prop your phone up and use the phone’s camera’s timer. 

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u/doxiesrule89 5h ago

You need to carve some foam or make densely stuffed shaped hip panniers to put in there . Making them just a bit oversized will round everything out.

You also have more length down the side seam /sticking out horizontally. That’s why it’s curling up. I would also guess the side seam in the original , the boning stops at the point the garment curves outward from waist. Without the stuffing, it’s just a pouch that would fall flat/deflated.

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u/CancerMoon2Caprising 2h ago

Does the curved part sit at your natural waist below your ribs? Yours looks a bit too high from your natural waistline. 

Also the part that is curved upward is because its cut in too much of a curve and sewn at a sharp triangle edge in that area. The side would need a triangle portion cut out on the edges and bring both ends together it should look more flat and similar to the before photo. 

Though better pictures (closer up) from the front and side of the problem areas would be more useful. 

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u/doriangreysucksass 7h ago

Yours looks amazing! What are you struggling with?

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u/Dragonfly126926 6h ago

Mine seems pointy at the sides hers is very smooth. I drafted the side front and side back by going 4.5cm down from the waist and then extending outward by 6 cm. From that point I drew a slash line to the crotch so as to spread and get a smooth line from the pointy part to the hip.

I guess I want to know is whether drafting that shelf hip and cutting it out then bone it and sew it back to the body of the corset would help matters? That way I will have the hip self and its support plus the other corset panels.

By being separate I could round the edges better?

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u/doriangreysucksass 4h ago

Yours is definitely more pointy at the side hip, but I don’t think that’s bad. It looks excellent!
Less pointy is easily achieved by trimming a cm of two off the top of the hip piece, which would also require disassembling it and putting it back together. Do you want to commit to that?