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Want to sew, don’t want to corset

Posted on October 27, 2006 by Trystan
1580s gown

Between finishing Aouda and the impending start of NaCoFiMo, I’m feeling fairly inspired to costume right now. Except the next thing on my docket is an Elizabethan corset, and I hate making corsets. It shouldn’t be that hard, that’s not the problem. I just find corsetry terribly boring and annoying. Stupid fiddly bone casings, then stupid fiddly grommets. Most undergarment-making bugs me. So little bang for the buck. Dullsville. Making them out of amusing fabrics can help, but that’s not doing it for me right now.

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