More Ballroom Bustles

This gown is also bustled in the Ballroom style using buttons for anchor points.

Step-by-Step instructions for creating this bustle and others are on the Beautiful Bustles DVD.

This gown has a nice waist decoration to hide the bustle points so I used hooks instead of buttons. They are a little more stable than the satin covered buttons and you can make the loops on the train smaller and therefore less noticeable when the bustle is not up.

Though this is not the way I do it, here's a link to a site with sep-by-step instructions on how to make a Ballroom bustle:
http://www.sewdeb.com/bustle1.html

This gown has a small band at the waist seam that we decided could nicely hide white hooks. I normall prefer to use covered buttons when there is no big bow to hide the hooks but this worked out nicely.

Here are 2 pictures of the back of the gown before and after bustle rigging. The hooks are there but they are mostly tucked under the band of beading.

This Ballroom bustle is lovely.

This gown has two skirts. The train is formed on only the underskirt. This provides a unique opportunity to hide the bustle riggings for the train under the top skirt.

This gown posses an interesting bustling problem. The crinoline slip also has a train - a big one with lots of netting.

We decided to bustle the crinoline slip separate from the gown in a mock of the french style described below. Here the loops and ties are rigged on the top of the crinoline.

Once the crinoline is bustled, we can design the gown's train bustle. Using the Ballroom style we set the points on the lower skirt tier, totally hidden under the upper tier.

The result is an incredibly lovely and totally unnoticeable bustle.

This gown is much the same situation as above but I'm going to bustle this gown in several layers.

Because of the shape of the train, I used 3 pick-up point on the first layer to hold up the sides of the train.

One the second layer only 2 point were needed because the center was already sewn near where I needed it to be.

The third layer needed only one point to hold up the very end of the train.