8 thoughts on “SNARK WEEK: Bad Spiral Lacing

  1. Thank you for this wonderfully informative article, with SO many examples, both good and bad! I once left a comment card at George Washington’s Mt. Vernon, pointing out that a pair of stays they had on display needed to be spiral-laced rather than criss-crossed. Wonder if they ever corrected it??

  2. Penny to a pound mention of the fact that, at one point, asymmetry was a deliberate fashion choice – trends having presumably been a Thing since even before people started doing numbers on social media (Possibly since even before people started doing NUMBERS, period) – will now be held up as an excuse for some of the mistakes in the images above!

  3. Another benefit of spiral lacing is that you can back lace yourself into your own garment. Losely lace the garment, wiggle into it, and then pull the string up and it zippers shut.

  4. I feel like I really don’t see many offset lacing holes in the 16th century with the half-step? To stop half of my bodice from riding up I usually just lace through the starting hole twice and that keeps it all in place

  5. This was really informative and interesting! On a somewhat related note, can I snark about people’s lacing gaps on their corsets being too large? I saw a photo the other day of someone whose lacing gap had to been at least four inches wide.

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