Before getting started on the Polonaise gown I had to do a bit of surgery on Sticky.
Sometime during the summer she had started coming "unstuck". Not a good thing for a duct tape double. Specific trouble spots were right around the hip & the back center seam. The back seam was so bad that you could actually see the plastic bags that she is stuffed with.
Armed with a fresh roll of 3" wide, industrial strength duct tape, surgery began. I think part of the reason Sticky didn't hold up as well as I had hoped was because we only used 2 layers of tape rather than three. I also think that humidity played its part in unsticking the layers. I also have to remember that she is getting smooshed a lot more than an average duct tape double. After all, I'm cramming her into my fully boned stays and she doesn't have the benefit of having bones underneith to stand up to the compression like my actual body does.
Sometime during the summer she had started coming "unstuck". Not a good thing for a duct tape double. Specific trouble spots were right around the hip & the back center seam. The back seam was so bad that you could actually see the plastic bags that she is stuffed with.
Armed with a fresh roll of 3" wide, industrial strength duct tape, surgery began. I think part of the reason Sticky didn't hold up as well as I had hoped was because we only used 2 layers of tape rather than three. I also think that humidity played its part in unsticking the layers. I also have to remember that she is getting smooshed a lot more than an average duct tape double. After all, I'm cramming her into my fully boned stays and she doesn't have the benefit of having bones underneith to stand up to the compression like my actual body does.
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