On Sunday, my sister left for Seattle early in the morning, so I had some free time to spend on working on the 1861 corset. (I had blogged about this in November.) I am using duck canvas in a natural color, although it looks white in this pictures. The style is quite different than the 16th century corsets; those were intended to give the upper body a conical shape, with a smaller waist, although the corset was not intended to make the waist smaller.
