Practices: Corset Boning | Piping

Style/Era: ~Early 1800s

A project the costume shop started early at the end of the Fall 2022 semester to get ahead for the large task that would be Pride & Prejudice in the Spring 2023 semester, and to teach the work-study students an important skill: corset construction and boning.

Points in which I was challenged:

• Shaving the bones to the right size.

  • Using a Dremel, I shaved the bones down to fit within the corset stay, however they needed to be very smooth to ensure that the bones would not cut through the fabric due to movement in the boning channels.