Making a Victorian Corset | Recreating an 1860s Historical Corset for an Alice in Wonderland Cosplay

Part two of my Victorian corset making journey in which I attempt to recreate that famous blue corset from the Victoria and Albert Museum collection. You thought you had seen all my mockups in my actual mockup video, well joke's on you, there are more mockups in this video than there were in the last... oops. Watch me slowly lose my mind over the fitting process than somehow get it back! I think I finally got the silhouette and style lines where I want them and... well the corset is made so there's no going back now I suppose. I used RedThreaded's gored corset pattern as my base but at this point it's been altered so much I'm not sure it's really that great of starting point. This corset will determine the shape for my cosplay of Hannah Alexander's Alice in Wonderland design, at least from the waist up.This is the fourth video in this series and I'm taking my research and inspiration from the mid-Victorian 1860's since that's when Alice in Wonderland was published and the time period that most matches Hannah's design.

In this video I go through corset fitting again and ramble a lot about changes that may or may not have actually done any good. I also go through a whole lot of corset making techniques, including roll pinning and flat lining the layers, measuring and drilling through synthetic whalebone corset boning, inserting gores,, stitching boning channels, and ... a lot more I've forgotten some of it now.

Reference Garments:
Corset - http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O15...

Materials:
Corset Strength Layer: Rag & Bone Navy Sturdy Cotton Twill (No longer available - any sturdy twill will work as long as it's not stretch!)
Fashion layer: https://www.moodfabrics.com/applicati...
Synthetic Whalebone: https://www.farthingalescorsetmakings...
Busk: https://corsetmaking.com/corset-busks...
Embroidery Thread: https://www.moodfabrics.com/414-ponge...
Buttonhole Twist: https://www.superiorthreads.com/butto...

Patterns:
RedThreaded 1860's Gored Corset - https://www.etsy.com/listing/55987319...

RedThreaded blog post making the same corset: https://redthreaded.com/blogs/redthre...

Skip ahead:
0:00 Intro
1:33 Fitting 1 (Mockup 3)
4:47 Fitting 2 (Mockup 4)
8:19 Fitting 3 (Mockup 5)
9:51 Cutting Fabric
10:40 Cat Break
12:04 Roll Pinning and Flat Lining
13:47 Inserting Gores
16:19 Boning Channels
17:29 Clean finishing thread ends
17:59 Clean Side Seam finish (idk what this is called someone please help)
19:30 Inserting a Waist Tape
19:51 Center Back Facing
20:12 Inserting the Busk
20:51 Binding Bottom Hem
21:23 Cutting Corset Bones
22:12 Drilling Corset Bones
22:25 Binding Top Edge
23:19 Inserting Grommets
23:57 Flossing and Embroidery
24:20 Birthday!
25:27 Lace edge
25:36 Reveal
26:09 Thoughts on Process and Finished Garment
29:15 Outro

Other Videos in this Series:
🧵Make Better Cosplay Using Historical Research -    • Make Better Cosplay Using Historical ...  
🧵Sewing Fluffy Victorian Underwear -    • Sewing Fluffy Victorian Underwear || ...  
🧵Fitting a Victorian Corset -    • Fitting a Victorian Corset Using RedT...  

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All music is from Epidemic Sound:
"Seems Like Yesterday" - Cody Butler
"Alicia's Slumber" - Infinity Ripple
"The Crossing" - Gavin Luke
"A Walk in the Clouds" - Howard Harper-Barnes
"Berceuse (Scaled Down Version)" - Lo Mimieux