The Sketchbook 1

Part 1

	Last Update 10 July 2001 © RubberHans

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Here you will find the most simple aproach to start tailoring your own phantasies in latex or rubber. The first pieces only require some tools and a damaged piece of clothing which will be your material stock. With a pair of scissors, a cutter, a steel ruler, a tape-measure and a suitable glue you enter the world of self-made fetish wear.
Only the gentleman's body suit cannot be done by using damaged pieces, as it requires aproximately 1m of latex or rubber cloth.

A Waist Belt

This is an exercise to pratice first skills. Make a simple waist-belt. For this, take the girth around the waist and add 3cm. The rubber strip should have a width of 4cm to 6cm. To have a good fit of the waist-belt glue the overlap of the two ends with 4cm. Before glueing, wrap the belt around the body and indicate the later position. If you feel that the overlap is too few, take a larger overlap. But do not make the mistake to glue the waist-belt too tight! In the first minutes you will not mention, but later you may feel squeezed. Moreover, the edges of the belt will roll and finally you end up with some type of a round nuisance. If you are not sure if the overlap you took is alright, simply wear the belt for one day. If it is still flat and you still feel comfartable, then you have found the right overlap.

This type of belt frequently can be used in future projects. Please take care that after glueing the complete piece of clothing the glued overlap of the belt should be invisible. Thus you need to plan your clothing:

to the back of the body if the belt is not covered by other parts of the clothing
to the front of the body if it is covered by other parts

A Lady's Slip

A lady's slip is a very simple to-do thing. First of all, make a waist-belt as described before. Aditionally you need an almost triangular piece of cloth and a strip of 3cm to 4cm. The length of both the strip and the triangualr piece can be acheived this way:

Put on the belt and arrange it in the correct position.
Take a tape-measure and get the length between front and back measured from the belt's top edge.
Divide this length by 2 and add 3 cm. This is the length l, which both parts later shall have.

Here a sketch to clarify the description. The slip is glued easily:

Connect "triangle" and the strip. Do not arrange the pieces out of the middle line! The overlap should be 4cm. With this, the slip later will not be too slacky between the legs.
Turn the belt's inside out. Now glue the base of the "triangle" to the belt. Be aware to glue this part to the later inner side of the belt. Take care to glue the center of the trinagle to the opposite side of the belt's coverlap.
Spread the belt with the triangular shaped piece downwards and indicate the center of the back part. Glue to this place the centered edge of the strip. Take care to glue symmetrically! Otherwise, the slip later wil be uncomfortable at one side.

Two Gentleman's Slips

	The gentleman's slip is slightly more work than the lady's. One part needs to be of other shape. Of course, the starting point is a waist-belt. If you have a damaged latex trouser, a cut from the edge will give you the ideal material to work with.
	Cut from the edge part the slip's middle piece. The V-shaped slot is to be glued with an overlap of about 1cm. this later will alow the gentleman's anatomy to feel comfortable. According to the previous description, to the inner side of this part the string is glued. All other steps are the same as with the lady's slip.

	If you succeeded up to now, this piece of clothing is within your reach. Please do not forget to take notes whiles working and after completing the task, draw pattern for all parts. As I made the experience, it is almost impossible to tailor this particular slip based on measuring and calculating. As work goes on, the person for whom the slip is made, must put it on several times. This means more work to clean the piece of clothing between the steps. Thus, this project is more time-consuming than those described before. Make a slip as suggested for the lady. To locate the opening, the slip is to be put on. As soon as you know location and size, pull the slip off again and mark the cut onto the surface of the material. For this, first tape a papertape to the surface and draw the contour with a ball-pen. The diameter of the opening shoud not be too large. To obtain the diameter, measure the circumference u of the penis below the testicles. The diameter should be u/3. Cut the circumference of the opening but 3mm inside the indicated circumference. Put on the slip and arrange all parts. Check, if everything is in the right place. Put off the slip and do the final cut of the opening. If you tend to be a perfectionist or you think you will wear this slip frequently, it is a good idea to reinforce the inner side of the opening with a circular piece of textile-enforced rubber cloth. The diameter of this piece should be 3cm more than that of the opening. Glue it centered to the place where the opening will be and then cut the opening. Make a hull of 7cm to 8cm length and suitable diameter. For this, take the circumference of the erected penis and add 1cm. When glueing the hull, make the overlap 1.3cm thus causing the necessary tightness. Put on the slip again and the powdered hull. Arrage all parts into the right position. Indicate the upper edge of the hull to the front part of the slip. This easily can be done by a small slip of paper tape. After putting of the parts and cleaning, the hull is glued to the slip's centerline at the indicated position. The area which is glued shall be about 1.5cm wide. Take care to glue the overlap of the hull to the outside of the slip! Thus, the overlap later will be invisible. Prepare a 20cm long, 1cm to 2cm wide strip. Glue it from inside to the front part of the hull with an overlap of 3cm. Take care that this strip is centered. If you are in doubt of the length of that strip, first make a paper pattern and check the measures. For this step you need a mirror and a comfortable chair - or a helping person. Prepare a smal piece of paper tape. Now put on the slip and arrange it. Sit to the front of the mirror so you can look at the lower edge of the opening. Now pull the open end of the strip between your testicles to the desired tightness. Indicate the place, where the strip crosses the lower edge of the opening with the paper tape. In case you have helping person, the mirror is not needed. In this case, you should stand upright and the helping person should mark the indicator. Put the slip off and glue the open end o the strip to the inner side of the opening. The overlap here also should be 3cm to 4cm. When the slip is finished, you will find it not too easy to put it on...

A Gentleman's Body Suit Made Easy

This comfortable and easy-to-do allday's gentleman's body suit is made of two parts. For a person 1.80m tall and of 80kg weight, you need about 1.2m latex or rubber cloth. Be aware to do the garment in a way that the cloth is not planned to be stretched. So glue the parts exactly to the measures you took.

Front

Back

First of all draw a sketch into which you note all important measures. To take the legth of the body, hold the tape-measure at the shoulder of the person, pass it from the front between the legs and up the back again to the shoulder. The length of the body you need to calculate is half of that value. Take the pattern shown here as a guideline.
Make a paper pattern. It is sufficient to draw and cut only half of it, as the human body is symmetric. The parts to top and bottom shall be at least 3cm longer than measured. to the side, the widht shall be 2cm more than measured. The shoulder straps shold have a with of 8cm to 10cm. Take care: The front and rear part have different patterns! Do not cut two complete patterns - simply glue a paper flap to the pattern which can be flapped down when necessary.
Cut the two pieces of cloth according to your paper pattern and clean them. Place the two parts exactly one onto the other and take care that the later outside surfaces face each other.
The curved edges are to be glued first. Glue with an overlap of 2cm. After the glue has dried turn the clothing so that the outside surface faces outside.
Now glue the lower straps. The overlap should be 3cm.
Carefully put the body suit on and arrange it correctly. If you did everything right, then the sholder straps should overlap with about 4cm. It is very useful to have a helping person who assists during the indicationg of the overlap. Put the body suit off again. If you found out that the body suit is not tight enough, turn inside out and reglue the edges according to your measures.
Cut the edges at the sides, fold them and glue them to the back side of the body suit.
Turn outside out.
Now glue the shoulder straps. The overlapped area should be 3cm wide. If it will become too wide, cut parts of the straps. Be careful to consider the fact that the shoulders tend to shape a "falling slope". Because of optical reasons, the front part of the cloth should cover the back part at this place.
If desired, reinforce the lower straps with a second layer of rubber cloth from the inside.
Cut the straps to their final shape.
Prepare two strips of cloth 4cm wide. Glue these to the outer side of the curved shapes to reinforce the seam. Take care to glue the strips precisely to the resp. centerline. For optical reasons, these strips may have a contrasting color.

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