#ooc

Besides, think of the delicious irony!

"Okay, honey, now, hand me that whip...."

I just have a picture of August going in all up tight nervous.. vanishing into a door way, and coming out with his top buttons un done, a bit of hair on his chest and scruff on his chin

*ROTFLMAO*

And muttering ".. bless me Father for I have sinned...."

"And I enjoyed it"

" Duke 'He makes me laugh' " - Earl's official title?

Heh, that's for Zara to bestow or not 🙂

Duke Dashing *nod* And down at the end of the list "Squire Merely Runny."

Heh. Sounds like a Life book "How to stop looking for Prince Charming, and find Count Earnest!"

She's much better at finding the Princes of Notting Available

....she is

grrr. If it doesn't reach your navel, it is not a corset.

Hey, there are plenty of guys available to her, for a wide manner of uses.

Hi!

Laughing That's right, you tell 'em ZaraP!

Very true. Should she avail herself. 🙂

HI BREKKE P!!! launch, tackle, crash

HAH!

A bustier, perhaps, but not every boned garment is a corset!

Haiii

THUD Um...hi!

I would go further to say if it isn't spring-steel boning, it's a play-corset, not a real one.

Mehhh

Hell of a carnival scene! Well done, all.

I have owned real ones. And yes, you CAN black out from being in them.

Earliest corsets were boned with cane, cording, reed...

Props to the ST. 🙂

Depends on style and era

steel is -late-

Well, if the purpose is to cinch you in, plastic will tear.

Honestly? Industrial zip-ties are about the closest equivalent to whalebone

We have zip ties here, and the ones we use are pretty flexible.

Should see my tartuffe ladies...

tight corsets. No wonder women back in the day were prone to swooning. I'd swoon too if my belly was shoved up into my lungs

Actually, depending on the style, it could compress down into your pelvis, too!

The ones I love best but are worst for you are the long-line S-curve Edwardians.

They were thought to be better for you, but actually were worst, physically speaking.

Sam's a DDD, and not small, and fully supported.

wait, uploading

Well, keep in mind, I tightlaced. This was before, I ah. Ahem. Outgrew them.

You aimed for a 4-6" reduction.

Which is achievable with the right kind of zip tie. Not that I mind steel - but recall, victorian corsets are "lightly" boned

zips are for earlier styles - cones, not hourglasses. They shape, minor compression, create the proper silhouette

Ahhh! I can see that.

Like you said, I guess it's depending on style and purpose.

And in 16th-18th century corsets, the bones are lined up TIGHT - a viccy might have 8-12 steel bones, a baroque would have over 40