The Emergency Wrapper!
So, on Saturday at Costume College something very unwelcome happened. Just as my right rib was getting tolerable and mostly painless, my left rib was hurt. Probably bruised, but very, very sore. In other words, I'm not wearing a corset next week. Had healing gone on as normal, fine, but with this? No. Especially as this was sort of a re-injury thing and I don't want a re-re-injury. Have I mentioned I'm ready to stop coughing?
So, enter fabric I bought years ago and a wrapper I've wanted to make for years. It's 1840s, 20 years earlier than the event I'm going to, but well, it's Virginia City, MT. It'll be fine. It's just a small adjustment from my 1860s base pattern, and can be worn without a corset and has a cute little lace up belt.
There was something of a pattern scare--my 1860s bodice wasn't in the 1860s bodice bag. Just the velvet evening one, the spotty one, and a random one with a weird neckline I worked with and didn't finish a few years ago. Fortunately though, I found one front, a side, and the back of the 1860s pattern, along with a pagoda sleeve. I really hope the zillions of other sleeves are in the big pattern bag somewhere and I missed them, but the pagoda gives a sleeve cap, and that's the most important part!
It doesn't take care of the ball, but I'll get that worked out. Wrong, less corseted era, I'm thinking :)