
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…