The back of this damn costume, gave me fits. I found a halter top pattern. A butterick patter for 99 cent at a local craft store. I had some cheap $1 a yard fabric from walmart. (back when wal-mart did that kind of thing.) I made the pattern and it fit pretty decent. Then I attempted to cut the hole in the back. Things started to get ripply. I darted it and the circle got shaped funny. So I cut it circular again. Ripply again. You can see where this is going.
I put it away for a while and posted to live journal about it. “that it can't exist in real life.” Someone commented.
It was on.
I assumed that if I cut it out of the real fabric it would work. The fabric was a micro fiber and the time I tried to turn it in to bias tape ended miserably. It would not curve. So I assumed the biases were pretty stable. It still rippled. It annoyed me. I needed to sell it. I was planning to wear it to MTAC Go, but my sanity was more important. While I was there I watched a show called Faking It. A woman was pretending to be an Atlanta Falcons cheerleader. The uniform an identical hole in the back. It could exist, but it was stretch fabric. Should I get stretch fabric. I couldn't afford it, the skirt was done and I probably couldn't find a match (my options at the time were joann's, fabric.com and denverfabrics.com *shakes cane*) I've seen people do the cut out way worse so decided to finish it anyway. I put in the boning and it was finally flat.The hole just needed extra support.