My corsets are 22 inches measured around the outside of the corset.
I display them when I do educational lectures about corsetry, Know what, I also have two antique corsets which are not for wearing.
Those were my first ones that I keep for sentimental reasons. I have six for wearing and after that two underbust ones that are now and after that need one more two months later since that first one has become as long as I started my waist diminished dramatically. I recommend Timeless Trends, and the Long Island Staylace Association is a great source of information. Cultural Historyby Valerie Steele. Notice, I get my custom corsets from C S Constructions. Generally, the first corset going to be off the rack since they’re very much cheaper. Needless to say, when I was a child the books I chose to read were ones that ok place in the Victorian era or were written hereafter.
I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t fascinated with the Victorian era. It goes back as long as I can remember, to be perfectly honest. Well, it was a gift and at the time I thought, so it’s a gift, I’ll play along and try it once. Of course, the more I did research it, the more fascinated I became. Of course, actually once was all it took. When I put it on and experienced it for myself, I’m almost sure I realized actually it wasn’t as uncomfortable as I’d been told, it was very enlightening since there are so many stereotypes about how rturous they are. That’s interesting. It wasn’t particularly uncomfortable really.
It was like a brand new pair of shoes.
As long as they are split right down the middle, pantalettes allow one to urinate standing up.
So there’re many situations where it can be very awkward to try to hold garments out of the way when one makes use of trees, shall we say, Take camping, for instance. In certain public restrooms one doesn’t necessarily need to sit down. It helps with grace of movement since it reminds me to keep my back straight. People started asking me if I was a dancer, that I did not expect anyway. I will say I’m a lot more graceful now than before I started wearing the corset.
I’d always considered myself quite clumsy. It definitely helps your posture. They are very comfortable and very practical. I’m very fond of my chatelaine and chatelaine purses. They the best. As a result.
By the way, a chatelaine is a little olkit that clips on. There’s this very luxuriant feel to petticoats, especially the silk ones. Remember, for outdoors I switch to a chatelaine purse. My indoor one contains a sewing cushion, a little notepad and a pair of scissors, loads of them will contain sewing tools. Anyways, like a great deal more stylish version of a fanny pack, it’s wonderfully convenient being that it leaves my hands free. Consequently, it was as soon as I started wearing a corset that I realized, wait a minute, To be honest I can look like that and it’s not very hard.
Seeing the figures of the majority of the women in the antique photographs, To be honest I appreciated their beauty but thought I could never look like them myself. Before I started wearing a corset I had always viewed the Victorian eras something that I loved the aesthetic of. It was a convenient for a while because corsets had fallen out of fashion. It’s easy to make something foreign into a demon. Anyways, in my opinion the twentieth century feminists felt they needed some sort of symbol that they could hold up as a visual aid to demonize, even if the nineteenth century feminists like Susan Anthony were as a matter of fact wearing corsets. Keep reading. They’re the ones who will come up and actually try to grab me, that I hate.