This is a quicky update, cause I need to keep track of how this all happened.
OK, no corset involved after all, I boned (and I mean BONED) the bodice of the underdress. And then underlined it with dead dinosaur I had lying around so that the boning doesn't show through the silk. And low, for the first time EVER, the bodice fit on the first go round. Even with using POF to pattern I was so excited that I could have flown. Normally it takes me at least 2 toiles to get the fit right. I actually KEPT the toile to use as a future pattern. So I've assembled the bodice and am attatching the skirt which has padded pleats and is knife pleated into the bodice. And it seems to be actually working. So I'm going to go and finish the dress and cut the sleeves if possible tonight. I think I'll get the underdress completed, but the green overdress might not get done until I return from TX. But I'm going to finish this all by December 5th. And then, since I finally got the pattern right, I'm going to do the red velvet Eleanor di Toledo dress, including the pair of bodies, but not the stocking. I'm not that talented yet.

Later,
Alliessa