Snakeskin PVC neck corset

Front view of the snakeskin and hot pink PVC neck corset

Back in January I made a silver/black snakeskin PVC underbust corset for a friend (as a belated Christmas gift) and while I was make it, I thought how cool it would look worn with a coordinating neck corset too.

I made a neck corset for myself ages ago, but honestly never really wore it.  I made another for sale (to to with the pink dragon underbust) but that wasn’t designed to fit me anyways.

Instead of trying to draft a new pattern from scratch, I just used Aranea Black’s Raven Neck Corset pattern, which is available as a free download.

Purple Angel Corset (EWPC)

Purple silk overbust corset with angel stenciled painting

I’m on a private group called Elegantly Waisted – which talks about and celebrates corsets and corsetry. In late 2021, we started a twice-monthly photo challenge, each two-week period with a different theme that the posters could interpret as they liked.

The March 1-15 theme is Pink / Purple so I’m going to be using my purple  overbust silk corset with an angel stencil.

Purple silk overbust corset with angel stenciled painting

The angel stencil is designed after the “mudflap gal” – but with angel wings and a halo. I don’t recall where I got the idea from, but think that I ended up taking an image from online and putting wings on her.

The fabric is a navy and purple shot dupioni silk. The boning and waist stay are in the interlining, and it’s lined in black. There is not front opening, which means I have to pull it on over my head. I didn’t want to disturb the stencil painting in the design, so this was the best option  -though it does make it harder to put on and take off.  Of course, it has lacing in the back.

Purple silk overbust corset with angel stenciled painting

I made this many years ago, but haven’t shared it here before… so since I took photos for the challenge – I’m posting it here now too! I realized in talking to an acquaintance about commissions, that I haven’t posted the vast majority of my corsets here!

Of course… since I made it a long time ago, that also means I don’t have any work-in-progress photos – or if I do, they’re not on this computer!

Purple silk overbust corset with angel stenciled painting

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Custom-made Pink & Snakeskin underbust corset

The finished back of the pink and snakeskin PVC underbust corset on my dressform.

Back in 2020 I made a pink PVC hobble skirt for a friend, and with the leftovers I also made a circle skirt for myself as well.  There were still a few scraps left over which I hung on to… just in case. (Although I give most of my leftover fabric to a friend who sews doll clothes, things like PVC I usually keep because moderate sized scraps often come in handy.)

Well, I hadn’t seen my friend in several months, but then they were coming to visit in late January, so I figured I’d try to “whip up” a corset for them, using the hot pink PVC leftovers as exposed (decorative, not functional) bone casings.

I originally planned on using a black PVC for the main body of the corset, but when I was going through my stash, all of my plain black PVC fabrics were really too thin to use for a corset – or too soft to handle the wear that the lacing would cause.

However, I had this black and super-dark silver snakeskin PVC (from a Medusa costume I did years and years ago) – and I had lots of it… enough for a corset for a friend, as well as one for myself if I still wanted to make another. Together with the pink PVC, it looked really neat, so I started drafting…

Teal Shantung Corset (EWPC)

Teal silk overbust corset with random decorative stitching and purple bone channels

I’m on a private group called Elegantly Waisted – which talks about and celebrates corsets and corsetry. In late 2021, we started a twice-monthly photo challenge, each two-week period with a different theme that the posters could interpret as they liked.

Teal silk overbust corset with random decorative stitching and purple bone channels

The January 1-15 challenge theme is Sparkle & Shine. I picked this navy/teal shot shantung silk corset embellished with random metallic stitching for my entry.

I don’t actually have a lot of corsets that are glittery or sparkly, the first one that comes to mind is still a work-in-progress, and there’s no way I’ll get it done by the Jan 15 deadline anyways… so the metallic stitching in this corset (since I entered my silver metallic corset for a previous challenge) will have to do!

Teal silk overbust corset with random decorative stitching and purple bone channels

I made this a number of years ago, with leftover silk from another project. It has contrasting purple/navy shot dupioni silk “bone casings”… though the bones are actually in the interlining. It has a strong front zip, and back lacing.

I don’t have any work-in-progress photos to share unfortunately. I made this a while ago, and if I took photos… they’re not on this computer.

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Teal silk overbust corset with random decorative stitching and purple bone channels

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The Elegantly Waisted Photo Challenge (EWPC)

Purple silk overbust corset with angel stenciled painting

I’m on a private group called Elegantly Waisted – which talks about and celebrates corsets and corsetry. In late 2021, we started a twice-monthly photo challenge, each two-week period with a different theme that the posters could interpret as they liked.

Since for some of the themes I’ll need to take new photos, hopefully I’ll also share some of them here – at least the ones I haven’t shared before. I will only be sharing the ones I’ve made of course though… not the ones I’ve bought.

I also wanted to make a record for myself of which corsets I want to use for which challenge.. just so I can remember for when the deadlines get closer.  The photos can either feature a corset with the theme (so the red/orange theme could be a red or orange corset) OR the photo can meet the theme, with any corset. (So the red/orange theme could be a black corset, over a red dress, or with an orange background.) This way folks who have huge corset wardrobes can participate – but so can people with limited corset wardrobes.