Lace it up - The true Corset thread

[C-dot]

As for busty gals & corsets, I have a new love for underbust corsets after buying several overbust ones that mostly just smoosh the girls or push them up to my chin.

I now agree - The girls need proper support, and I'm not a fan of the "Sexy Secretary" or duct-taped look.

[chanteuseCarey]

okay, call me a dope if y'all want to but what is the 3-4" smaller waist thing fascination with corsets anyhow? For starters you'd have to have custom made clothing or specifically altered ready to wear garments to wear over them. Plus a gal would look extremely odd with such an exaggerated figure like that walking around town in her regular every day life... Other than at a Victorian Ball or costumed theme event, when would you wear these things. If saving it for the bedroom, um.. at some point you'd end up taking the thing off and all (in its real size) would be revealed anyway. If there is some secret stripper fantasy thing about it all, sorry I just don't go there and neither does my husband or our teenage son and daughter.

[Helysoune]

okay, call me a dope if y'all want to but what is the 3-4" smaller waist thing fascination with corsets anyhow? For starters you'd have to have custom made clothing or specifically altered ready to wear garments to wear over them.

I can agree, Carey. I already have enough of a hard time being disproportionate, so I don't want to shrink my waist further without shrinking the rest of me. That's not to say that I want to be skinny or anything, I much prefer being curvy, but it's tricky enough finding clothes that fit without taking another three or four inches off my waist. In women's sizes, I'm a 42-38-40 from the top down. In misses sizes, my top is off the charts, with a waist that's a 20 and 18 hips. With 4" reduction, my waist would be a 16, but the other two wouldn't change. And let's not get started on how being tall with a very short torso completely screws up the way clothes fit...

[Emer]

Personally, I wouldn't mind just having an inch or two shaved off my mid section, but that's it! I actually took the tape to my waist the other day and pulled it in to give me a 24-inch waist--whew did it look odd!! I have between a 26/27 inch waist, but if I could get down to a soild 25, I'd be very happy. Of course, my hips could definitely stand to lose more than couple of inches!

[PS]

I think its pretty sexy myself. Before children I had a pretty extreme natural body shape. Tiny waist, enormous hips. I hated it at the time. All i wanted were goal post thigh and a concave stomach. Costumers would tell me how amazing my curves were, how sexy, sensual....etc...I didn't get it. But when I look back at it I would KILL FOR THAT BODY! My waist has filled in considerably and I lose and gain weight much more proportionately now that I am older.

[Lily Powers]

Seems like Pilates and Zumba classes would be easier in the long run to me, and less tortuous... and I'd get to eat

Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm a strong advocate and participant of exercise and stretching to achieve a healthy body (which can be slim, curvy or in between), and I'm never one to shy away from good, healthy food! Sometimes though (for me anyway), shapewear just fits the bill on those days when the fabric tends to cling a bit more than I'd like in places.

If saving it for the bedroom, um.. at some point you'd end up taking the thing off and all (in its real size) would be revealed anyway.

I had to giggle, that comment made me think of something Carol Burnett would do in a comedy sketch!

[chanteuseCarey]

Sounds like a 40s dress figure Helysoune! Really, I've seen measurements like these on vntage 40s dresses and patterns on evilBay! And much of the 40s dresses have a higher waistline. Yours are much easier to find than mine (43-32-42 currently, and I'm long waisted).

I can agree, Carey. I already have enough of a hard time being disproportionate, so I don't want to shrink my waist further without shrinking the rest of me. That's not to say that I want to be skinny or anything, I much prefer being curvy, but it's tricky enough finding clothes that fit without taking another three or four inches off my waist. In women's sizes, I'm a 42-38-40 from the top down. In misses sizes, my top is off the charts, with a waist that's a 20 and 18 hips. With 4" reduction, my waist would be a 16, but the other two wouldn't change. And let's not get started on how being tall with a very short torso completely screws up the way clothes fit...

[ThesFlishThngs]

As a short-waisted girl with a figure on the slightly boyish side, I'm all about tucking in an inch or two. That's the only way I could come close to even a vague semblance of an hourglass. Or more like a three-minute timer.

[Lusti Weather]

okay, call me a dope if y'all want to but what is the 3-4" smaller waist thing fascination with corsets anyhow? For starters you'd have to have custom made clothing or specifically altered ready to wear garments to wear over them.

I've done a bit of waist training, and this is actually the main reason I haven't pursued it further. I have enough trouble finding clothes that fit me right as it is; if I continued waist training I would have to get everything taken in, and I'd hate to have to do that to all of my vintage. That said, I love the way a real, steel-boned corset looks and feels(!). I have seen people with major reductions that are too extreme for my own tastes, but I personally believe to each their own.

[C-dot]

okay, call me a dope if y'all want to but what is the 3-4" smaller waist thing fascination with corsets anyhow?

An hourglass figure has always been in vogue For those of us who aren't naturally, we jump at the chance to train our waists with corsets!

Real steel-boned corsets also correct your posture like no other, IMHO.