Last updated on January 21st, 2021 at 02:21 am
This entry is a summary of the review video “Homemade Blue Ribbon Corset”. If you would like more complete information and side notes about the corset, you can watch the video on YouTube here:
| Fit, length | Short cincher about 12″ high in the center front, comes up high on the hips. Pointed in the front and in back. |
| Material | Almost entirely 2.25″ wide double faced satin ribbon, with coutil flatlined to the ribbon on the vertical panels in front, side and back. |
| Construction | Pattern is from page 88 of the book Corsets and Crinolines. The horizontal ribbons were draped into the correct shape and tacked on the sides, then sandwiched between two pieces of coutil-flatlined-to-ribbon vertical panels which were then topstitched. The bones sandwiched in the vertical panels only. |
| Binding | There is only binding at the top and bottom of the vertical panels, also made with blue ribbon. |
| Waist tape | None (ribbon corsets generally don’t have waist tapes). |
| Modesty panel | None. |
| Busk | Standard flexible busk, about 9.5″ long with 5 clasps. |
| Boning | 14 bones in this corset; 8 bones on the side panels (4 on each side), 2 flats on either side of the busk and another 4 in the back sandwiching the grommets. |
| Grommets | 26 gold #X00 2-part grommets (13 on each side). Gold was the only colour I had at the time. |
| Laces | Simple white round shoe-lace style cord, about 7 meters. |
| Price | Cost in materials was close to $35. A standard ribbon cincher is often sold for about $150-$200 depending on the maker. Custom fit ribbon cinchers often are more expensive. |
