I've used 1/8" zip ties to bone doll corsets, for hard-body, not-squishable dolls. But I was making Victorian corsets. With a pair-of-bodies, you'll just have to let there be airspace under her boobs.
Do share the results. :) Claudine ----- Original Message ---- > From: Natalie <natali...@gmail.com> > To: Historical Costume <h-cost...@indra.com> > Sent: Fri, January 14, 2011 9:18:29 AM > Subject: [h-cost] Early Elizabethan Corsets for Barbie > > I'm taking my passion for Barbie in a new direction (she previously only kept >my crochet hook busy). I know I have seen a very well done website detailing >how to make early Elizabethan underpinnings for Barbie, but now my google-fu >fails me and I don't have it bookmarked either. It is not so much the pattern > >construction that eludes me as what to use to stiffen the corset to create the > >conical 'Bethan shape instead of Barbie's hourglass. > > If anyone has any ideas or can point me to the site I am wondering about, it >would be very much appreciated! Thanks in advance! > > Natalie > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume