I read once that you can heat up a Barbie and squish her body into
the shape you want. I don't know anything beyond that, but since
Elizabethan tended to flatten and the 18thC effect is "pleasing
mounds," Barbie's original shape is not quite right.
-Carol
On Jan 14, 2011, at 12:30 PM, cw15147-hcos...@yahoo.com wrote:
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
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