Your Wardrobe Unlock'd

What if you want to "standardize" your patterns and sell them? It's not as complicated as you might think... Jennie shows how.

How to transform a basic bodice pattern into three Regency bodices styles: gathered and two different styles of crossover bodices.

Even Regency period gowns, with their simple, geometric shapes, present issues with fitting. Nicole investigates.

This month Marion McNealy shares with you some of the vintage corset making and fitting books that are online.

The books range from patterning and making an 1857 corset (perfect for the Single Pattern Project!)  to 1920's and 30's corsets, corselettes, brassieres, bandeaux and girdles. We've even got an excellent book from the 1950's for corset saleswomen on fitting a customer and making her feel at ease during the fitting process, still applicable to customers today!

Professional costumer Suzi Clarke reminisces about her years at the RSC dressing actors, and then shares some helpful tips on fitting.