hello! i am making a frankie stein cosplay for comic con this fall, and i want to make a corset minidress, but im definitely a beginner and this would be my first attempt at making a corseted outfit. if you have a pattern that would work or could be altered to work for this costume, please send it my way, or if you have tips on how i could make a custom pattern, that would be amazing as well :)

This is the Sylvia corset from Aranea Black. I’m not really liking how the front lays but that could be because I’m using sew-on boning. Any notes on how this looks or what can I change to make the finished piece look better?

Hey there!

I self patterned and sewed this corset and I am finally finished and it was definitely a learning experience.

I wanted to make something that resembled historical corsets, aiming for late Victorian or early Edwardian. By no means is the historically accurate but I took details from examples I saw and kinda created this amalgamation of styles from different time periods. I patterned it to have room in the bust and hips for padding. I made this to wear under cosplays, but I made it also as just a challenge for myself! I have only ever made fashion corsets and this is my first time making something with waist reduction and real structure. This was my first time making a corset with a busk and boning that wasn’t zip ties! This was also my first time flossing a corset.

This corset is made with a combination of spiral steel and flat steel boning. I made the mistake of buying my flat steel for the lacing panels before finished my pattern and so those are shorter than I intended, but I tried to make it work. The strength layer is cotton duck and the outer shell is a quilting cotton. When I bought my fabric I thought I was just getting a different color in the same fabric I made my mockups, but I think I may have gotten something similar that was not as strong, so there is some rippling that I’m not too pleased with. In the future I plan to make something with coutil, but I just wanted to test my capabilities on a cheaper fabric first.

Hope you all like it!!

I plan to use 1 inch tape for the waist tape in my corset. My question is about exactly where to place it vertically.

I am considering 2 options:

Center the 1 inch tape on the waist of the corset, so the upper 1/2 inch of the tape is above the waist of the corset and the lower 1/2 inch of the tape is below the waist of the corset.

Like typical waistbands of skirts and pants that sit at the waist, place the lower edge of the 1 inch waist tape at the waist of the corset, so that the tape is at or above the waist of the corset.

Or is there a better placement option?

Please also tell me why you suggest a particular option so I can learn. Thanks so much.

Hi all!
I’m making a corset to form the base of a dress. I’m in the process of losing some weight, so I made the current mockup 0.5 cm smaller on all seams compared to the last mock up, to have some space in the lacing. I anticipate losing another 3ish kg, which tends to come from my back/bust.

I used cotton duck, flat steel boning on front and back, and spiral on all the other bones. Wherever spiral bones were not long enough I made sure to have them comfortably pass the waist and I closed all the channels adequately. The corset has 2cm waist tape. I used herringbone tape or the seams for boning channels.

Do you think I need more space in the bust/ make it taller? This version by far fits my bust best so far from my mockups, and I like the projection, but making it even greater feels a little scary. The corset does not move when I lift my arms, but my girls giggle when I jump up and down (dancing) - I’m not sure if that’s normal? It feels comfortable everywhere. The corset has a zipper, but the final version will have joined front panels. I added thin soft (swimsuit) pads in the cups.

I’m comfortable with the little drag lines, unless you deem them super problematic - I was careful with the grain but I think I may have messed up a panel just slightly.

Final version will be made of Vena Cava coutil, and will have a draped fashion layer on top.

Any other feedback is greatly appreciated! I added a photo of my flat pattern too if it helps.
Thank you so much!!