I’m working on the eyelet holes for the back of Ninon’s bodice and it is soooo boring, and quite hard work. Pushing the threads of a tightly woven duchesse silk satin and three layers of linen far enough apart to make a decent lacing hole takes a lot of effort. I considered a couple of options for how to construct the back and the back lacings, some of which might have been easier to do. My first idea was that I could make a hidden placket by wrapping the lining of the bodice from the back of the bodice over to the front, and then put the eyelet holes through that.  Then I could fold back my satin fabric, and sew it over the eyelet holes in a placket to hide the lacing from the outside.  This is basically what Katherine did with her 1660s bodice. I was tempted to do this because it would be easy, and (if it worked), would look very neat.  But it doesn’t always work.  And, more importantly, it’s not …