How to Make a Regency Corset | Bust Gussets, Wooden Busk, Cording | Why Regency Stays Are DIFFERENT?

[@ZipZipInkspot]

Very much appreciated your step-by-step approach to showing us the stays construction...as well as your approach to speaking with us, which is clear, informed, and not carried at a gallop! Good call on the zipper foot for the cording. I do that when creating piping; as methods they're siblings :)

[@KatherineSewing]

Hi Natalie, Thanks so much for your comment and kind words! 😊 That’s interesting to hear about your piping method, I may have to try that out! 💕

[@Chamarita357]

Katherine you are so talented! Thanks for sharing 😊

[@paularies3282]

Love the cording technique! Definitely going to do my cording this way when I make mine.

[@thegriffinwithin]

Amazing stays. These are the sort of thing Id be happy to wear every day!

[@carole0123]

Mais quel travail ❤. C'est magnifique.

[@camillemousse]

Gorgeous work with the cording detail and detail stitches around the holes for laces. Loved that you complimented this sewing project with some fashion history. Very interesting. Excellent video Katherine.

[@pippaseaspirit4415]

The stays are beautiful, and look so comfortable, too. I loved watching the process of making these.

[@anaisabelsantos4661]

So beautifull. Long stays may be a good addition to my peninsular war wardrobe. I have a pile of 12th and 14th centuries clothes to finish or make, most are very fast, but a couple will be a bit time consuming. Let's see if I can travel to the 1800's before the end of April and finally make something for me.

[@KatherineSewing]

Hi Ana! That Peninsular War wardrobe sounds so interesting! As do your 12th and 14th century clothing! Let me know how it all goes, and if you are able to make some long stays at some point 💕 Thanks for your comment!

[@anaisabelsantos4661]

@@KatherineSewing For me regency is very specific 1807-1814 war time.

[@lucyannethrope7569]

Thank you for an excellent video, again! The regency period is my less favourite when it comes to historical fashion, exept for the stays. I love regency stays, so comfortable. Great that you explain the bending over and lifting heavy stuff. I don't need wooden buskar to help me though...thanks to years of heavy metal lifting, but the same principal goes for weight lifting, Bend from the hips, use mostly legs and straight back, with preassure/support from the core muscles.

[@KatherineSewing]

Hi LucyAnne! Thanks so much for your comment! Great to hear others with more knowledge/experience can back up my suppositions on posture and bending. ♥️

[@sylviemariehebert9758]

These looked so good on you! I wish I could make some for myself, but I'm too much of a beginner sower to start a project like that without an actual in person teacher.

[@KatherineSewing]

Hi Sylvia, Thanks so much! ♥️ We all start somewhere! I do offer an online course called "Victorian Custom Corset-Making" to walk a beginner through making a historical corset. Once you are more comfortable with your basic sewing skills, check it out! It's linked in the video description ♥️

[@sylviemariehebert9758]

@@KatherineSewing Thanks I'll check it out for sure

[@marielandry1805]

Hello Katherine thank you so much for this video though I didn’t make yet a regency corset I was thinking 🤔 what you explained in the end that the wooden bone would prevent me to bend over the wrong way … I will definitely make myself a regency corset as my first corset attempt lol with my bad back it should help me with posture also . Thank you again 😊

[@KatherineSewing]

Hi Marie! Thanks so much for your comment! ♥️ It's great to hear that my video has inspired you to try out Regency stays! I think it could definitely help you with your posture and back pain ☺️

[@cassmacdonald-perfectlyimp2486]

Ah yes. Bust gussets. As I said on my blog on my own shorter regency macgyvered stays, I said show me a costumer that likes gussets and I’ll show you a liar 🤣🤣🤣. I did think about how I did mine and I ended up sandwiching both gussets between the lining and outer layer and sewing through all six layers (including the seam allowances. Trying to do the whole thing thinking in 3D including the pinning really Medes with my head, but it did end up working (with a few errors needing redone with a lot of swearing). I did think about treating the layers separately, but I’ve done that before and it didn’t go brilliantly, but I was somewhat of a novice sewer back then.

[@joannaalston469]

this is a lovely and instructional video :) i am currently making a pair of regency short stays and would love to try the longer version next. your description of feeling like a column sounds so fun! i have noticed that although Mandy Barrington’s books are full of beautiful photographs and step-by-step pattern drafting advice, she does take a negative stance towards mobility/comfort in corsets. in volume 2, she says that the wearer of a 1910s longline corset would find it hard to sit down! hard to believe from a corset maker.

[@KatherineSewing]

Hi Joanna, Thank you! Good luck on your short stays! I agree, just because some one writes a corset book doesn't mean they don't buy in to the modern beliefs around corsets!

[@khimbalee5087]

Fascinating! Loved the discussion of the wooden busk.

[@rubytook8067]

Been waiting for this video! 😁❤️

[@KatherineSewing]

Hi Ruby! That’s great! Thank you so much for your comment! 💕

[@NoraRoisin]

I hope to make one of these soon- it's really great to see a video of it to get me feeling like it's a bit more possible (I've been hoping to for, uh, fourteen years). I particularly like that particular corset (along with a few others) compared to other extants I've seen. I also wonder if one could cord it more to add extra support and less wrinkling around the bust, but since I haven't made them, I couldn't possibly know. :)

[@KatherineSewing]

That is great! Yes, more cording could probably help! Let me know how your project goes when you start! ☺️💕

[@keelyjohnston19]

I watched a video by Claire yixuan zhang she made these amazing pink/cream stays but the amount of work her stays took was crazy. So thank you for making stays look do-able. They look stunning I love your work. The corset you did a replica of was it black or blue I thought it was black but some pictures on instagram look blue?

[@KatherineSewing]

Hi Keely! That’s great this video helped these stays feel doable 😍 Thank you so much for your kind words and comment! 💕 The Victorian reproduction was black 😊

[@jayrlbd8355]

Amazing video! I've recently become interested in historical dress and just finished making a pair of corded 1830s stays - I tried the Mandy Barrington pattern first, but didn't like how the mockup looked on me in the mockup (something about the "leg" of the back panel contorting as it went over my hips) so I adapted the rural corded corset from Jill Salen's book and am now suuuper happy with it! Now I just need to sort myself out a wooden busk, and I'll be good to go! 😊

[@easyknittingcrochet4394]

Nice tutorial 💜💜💜

[@KatherineSewing]

Hi, thanks so much! ♥️♥️

[@rebeccaofsunnybrookefarm8469]

The rapid change in set while you are talking is extremely difficult to watch. The rapid screen shots are difficult to follow... I was grateful that your editorial slowed down the screen flipping. I adore the sewing skills... Thanks for sharing!

[@c2442l]

Did you make you own tailor’s ham? If not, where did you get it?

[@dariaorme1282]

I have really bad back pain and bending my spine forward is absolutely NOT DOABLE no matter what I'm wearing. I usually keep my back straight and lower myself by bending my knees.

[@KatherineSewing]

Hi Daria, thanks so much for your comment! I'm sorry to hear about your back pain. ♥️You're right, it really isn't ideal to bend from the waist ♥️

[@siriusxp4770]

Hello🌻🌻🌻from France, would you like to sell one corset like this one? Many greetings and best wishes to you 🌻

[@jeffreycunningtown5730]

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