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Corset Ignorance by sixrabbits
I just... I want to punch someone... I want to punch someone really freaking hard... in the ribs.
Recently saw an article about "waist training" and real corsets were not even shown!!! They kept calling them corsets and talking about the dangers of corsets, showing pictures of what extreme tight lacing can do to a rib cage and organs. Waist shapers are spandex and have little to no boning in them and no laces. You cannot adjust the size of a shaper and it is not fitted to your own personal measurements. This was all a bunch of negative bullshit about how people try to loose weight by wearing these things.
Then the comments added to my rage. The commenters had a lot to say about how those of us that wear corsets are stupid, and "it went out of fashion for a reason"- yes it did, because there was a war going on and metal was in demand, and corsets are one thing have metal that people could live without, thus women were encouraged to stop using them (or at least that's one reason).
Things that pissed me off the most
1. people posting images of Victorian era tight laced ribs and organ damage. Yes, extreme tight lacing, especially when done for long periods of time, can cause damage and will warp the rib cage. However, wearing a corset does not automatically mean tight lacing. There are multiple styles of corsets, and multiple ways they can be worn. They can be worn without compressing the ribs. I have been wearing corsets for a while and my ribs have not changed- I have even seen an x-ray of my ribs and I can tell you they look normal.
2. "you don't have to do that to yourself to look pretty." "Men don't want you to do that." and a whole host of comments assuming that the only reason women do anything is for the approval of others. Because clearly no one puts on clothes for themselves, no one does anything because THEY like it, only because they believe other people will like them for it. From the bottom of my heart, fuck off and die.
3. "It doesn't matter if you do it gradually, you'll still damage your organs!" thanks Dr Dumbass, I'll inform my current doctor that she should re-check my organs because they clearly must be destroyed by now. Shit, by that logic a good strong hug or a poke in the belly should kill people. Your organs are soft, so long as you listen to your body and stop when it hurts you are not going to damage your organs from properly wearing a corset. Now, if you tighten too quickly or past the point of discomfort, then yes you will hurt yourself.
It just pisses me off that so many people ignore the facts. Yes, when worn improperly a corset can cause damage. High heel shoes cause a host of problems for people who wear them too often or go to extremes, but in the same vein, someone who wears a slight heel is not suffering the same kind of issues as someone who wears 8 inch stilettos everyday!
Corset Ignorance
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Thank you!
Yes, they create some impressive shapes. Mine are less hour glass shaped, and a little most V formed in the cut, but I don't tighten to the point constrict my ribs. For me personally, I just like wearing them, they are comfortable and a decent alternative to a bra.
A few of the customers who frequent the place I work at wear different styles of corsets, on girl has wooden corsets with all sorts of cool designs on them.Yes, a million times yes!
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oooo, the wooden corset sounds neat! I've seen some really nice leather worked and carved corsets too.
I've never considered a corset. XD Of course, I'm rather well endowed, and a sloucher, neither a good candidate for corsetry. I love Lucy's Corsetry though. Her videos and website as a whole are awesome with great information. I actually found her when I was looking up ways to easily get long hair out of my face. Hello ten second 'nauticus knot'! :D
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I was a wasper in my 20s, and I wore a corset daily, I had fashion ones, but this one was under my clothes. I would be working in a Denny's uniform, with my corset under. And just find doing it too. Why? Well for one, they are completely safe if you know what you are doing and what you are wearing. My thing is people calling a bustier a corset. No. GTFO, that is lingerie. I even think spiral coil is lingerie, but I am one of those people that, like I said, was lifestyle. I have to wear most of my corsets for an hour un- cinched, to warm up the material and for some uses, then another hour just normal laced. I only do not wasp now, because I need to be fitted for a new corset and I just don't have the spare for another 300 plus for another real one. Well for the boning I want, usually more, since spiral is for fashion and is a waste of your money due to warping. (I am an asshole, I know, shuushuuuuu) I do not make corsets for wasping, but I can make simple costume ones, but they are not really corsets to me. Just underwear/bras.
I wear one now for sitting doing art, it helps my back which is why I wore them before getting serious into wasping. Which I did for modeling, and for some goth clubs I was in. It did take my ribs in, it didn't hurt, doctors always cleared me, I am a huge outdoors person, healthy as hell. I could eat a hamburger and the whole spread wasped like that just fine, but you can't just willy nilly into that. Even right now, I can but I am not dumb and won't. They call it training for a reason lol.
Also the Victorian thing is hilarious, I have a side lacing corset for pregnancy somewhere in a trunk at my dads. Doesn't take in the belly at all. For most clothes cuts back then you needed to wear one. My sister just wore my grandma's dress for her wedding, and was like "why does it look dumpy even with a tummy tucker?" I had to live through her to walk big sister through her first corset ;3;
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That's cool that you were able to use it daily. I have considered wearing mine more frequently, but work wears me down so much and the AC is so bad I don't want to put on another layer until it gets cooler (which is also another reason cited for why many women used to faint back then- 20lbs of cloth is not easy on the body).
I firmly agree, it bugs me when people refer to anything that isn't a true corset as a corset. Like the popular "corset cut" tops that are made with stiff fabrics- which I like them, but I will never call them corsets. People just don't realize how seriously we take this.Same here, they are great for keeping the back straight. I don't usually eat much while corseting, but I have my own set of stomach problems so I hesitate to bother it. However, I know many people who have no trouble eating while laced up. Also yeah, you can't just pop into one and cinch down to a 15 inch waist, that would be horrifying.
The Victorian era definitely had a lot of weirdness, and sometimes it bugs me when people make characters of that era and make them hate corsets (because gee that cliche isn't old at all) but give them a tiny figure anyways....
Aw, you are a good sister, teaching her about the ways of the wasp. lol-
I have to usually go custom anyways because my hips bust and waist are not the usual. Most 26 corsets don't take my waist in at all, just tuck the gut. >.> My last decent corset is by Alter Ego, and its kinda too over done. No busk three lace ups. Leather naturally. It was a butt with a charged hawk. I now really want a cincher, and one sweetheart overbust with over hip detailing. Wears Dorthy outfit and holds Toto
I just can't pop down that quick but with training, sure. Right now my comfort size is 26 for corsets, and that is just derping around normal. I can't stand seeing girls in the wrong sizes and men not wearing ones made for them (they fit so much nicer) Also the gap. Oh god. and the vanity flap then skin to one side of the flap. I turn into the hulk. I still tightlace, just no wasping. My casual wasp used to be a 22*23ish, my waist is a 30, at its strictest, was 12 and that was to wear a whale boned corset for an event in full garb and I fainted after less then a few steps into the room after making it out of the back room. That shit was seriously out of my league. Thing is it didn't hurt. Not at all. I just lost my breath even with proper breathing and welp TIMBERRRRRR
I have been cut out of a corset before, so now I don't really eat and never drink with one on. Sigh... When I was a jackass and drank at a party when I was 22 or so and was wasped this happened. That was something I never did again. I mean drinking rum out of a jug slung over my arm. Also drinking beers like water and pogoing around. We even had cops show up to tell us someone across town was complaining about our party at a 2 am due to live bag-piping and they showed up to goths doing keg stands =,=;; By far a taste of my wilder days.
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I really respect and admire hardcore corset wearers. I wish I could get into it, but I am poor and don't even know where to start... Plus not sure what other people would think. As you have already stated, people really have no idea what it's all about. Lots of misinformation floating around... It's sad!
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Yeah, it's definitely an investment.
A lot of people start with waist cinchers, they cost less and don't need to fitted as much since they just go around the middle. But it's also a matter of what you want out of the corset, I personally like using mine in place of a bra and to keep my back straight, so I didn't go for a custom fitted one but still dropped the $200 for a well fitting steel boned corset.
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Indeed Indeed.
I'm not a wearer myself, but I've seen some long time corset hobbyists, and dang, it takes some pretty serious training for some of the styles/sizes. It's qute amazing really. And the effects can be stunning, very unique in today's world.
And doing anything the wrong way will get you hurt, if only eventually. I'd certainly include over-doing it in that realm too.