At Skeletons in the Closet we always try to improve our work. Me in the pattern drafting department, and my husband when it comes to the hardware part of the work. As you may know this year we have been working on new standard size corsets, couture shapes and historical examples. It was also time […]
First of all, I would like to say that I do not believe in rules of fashion. You should wear what you feel comfortable with not what you are dictated to wear. If you like to wear skintight clothes, wear it. Like a baggy shirt, go with it. So if you ask me: “can I […]
Sheer corsetry. As you may know, I was a little late to the sheer corsetry party. Having tried to work with lingerie mesh, and non coutil strength layer before (both not to satisfaction) I was not sold on the idea of using a mesh fabric for corsetry. After all a corset is supposed to be […]
The new year is well underway and things are quite busy at Skeletons in the Closet! The last few weeks I have been down with the flu, but we are up and running again, catching up on orders. For 2016 we have some exciting plans I would like to share with you. […]
Single layer corsetry. Corsets come in lots of different shapes and sizes. They also come in different construction methods. One of those construction methods is the single layer construction. When I first started out corsetmaking I thought that corsets were supposed to have at least 3 layers. A fashion fabric and two strength layers, and […]
Hello All, As you can see we are working again on our website. Sadly the website we had has crashed and we have to start over. But do not fear soon we shall have all kinds of information on the website once more!