While there is something to be said for the mystique of corsetry, it has a side effect of creating a bit of a barrier, seeming distant, untouchable… and therefore daunting, and avoided. “What do I wear it with?” women ask me, somewhat bewildered, when I’m fitting for Dark Garden. “Where do your clients wear them?” people ask me when I talk about my line, Pop Antique. As soon as you […]
When discussing corsets, the word “squishy” inevitably comes up. Though outside the corseting community, the word is used as as a euphemism for being full-figured (or as a reference to Finding Nemo…), when talking corsets it has a rather different connotation. “Squishy,” or, “compressible,” if one wishes to be delicate about it, refers to the body’s natural ability to be reshaped by a corset. In other words, when it comes to corsets, […]
Let me start this post with two disclaimers: 1) I love corsets. 2) A good fit is absolutely key in a corset. But I don’t think that fully custom is the only way to achieve a good fit in a corset. (Bonus disclaimer: I’m not talking about the kind of ready-to-wear corset that is sweatshop mass-produced with no shape and/or flimsy plastic bones, etc. As far as I’m concerned, those […]
With the winter holiday season officially over, many of us are sorting through the accumulated rubble of our various gifts received and parties thrown. As for me, I also have been in the process of unpacking from my first move in four years, so besides picking up a season’s worth of cocktail dresses from my dressing room floor, I have to sort and put away all my regular clothes, including […]
All corset wearers know (or should know, anyway) that they need to loosen their corset laces before unfastening their busk, but it’s rarely explained why, beyond the basic “it’s bad for the corset.” I mentioned this in passing in the first post of this series, How to Care for a Corset, Part 1: What to Do While Wearing Your Corset, but saved the full rationale because I think it’s important enough to […]
