18th century help

[robinsnest]

Hey people who do more 18th century than I do. I'm helping my friend Alice fit her Caraco. She's based it on PoF pg 24. 

She's got a couple fitting issues going on, the biggest being that the waist is way too low, so ignore the big waist wrinkles we already know how to fit those.


My question is about the center front. It's WAY too big, to get it nice and taught over her stays she needs to take in over an inch, which makes the little points look...skinny. SO is it period to just leave them off? 

Exhibit A:                                                                                         Exhibit B:

                                

Again we know the way to deal with the massive waist wrinkles, the question is there any precedent for leaving off the little tabby bits.

Thanks! 

Comments

alterations...

[(Anonymous)]

instead of taking it in at center front, can you take it in at the side seams or center back? That way you won't lose the tabs.

Re: alterations...

[sewloud.livejournal.com]

It has side back seams and the back fits perfectly, so really the place it wants to come in is the CF

[blackcat452.livejournal.com]

I can't think of any examples, but it dosen't look wrong to me. Another idea, cut down the front and add a stomacher, this way you can take in the front more.

[estela-dufrayse.livejournal.com]

what blackcat said, or, since you are cutting the waistline higher, can you not recut the front bits, even if it's just into a point. I can't say without, as you have pinned looks wrong to me, but it also doesn't look right, if you know what I am getting at.