Corsets

[DoñaNina]

Well this is garb related, so I hope it goes here..

Anyway, I'm working on getting my hands on a 22" corset. Right now I can wear my 24" corset (underbust style) all day, laced completely. I have a natural 29"-30" (depending on what I ate, time of day, ect.) waist.

Sometimes my lower back will hurt, sometimes it won't. Eventually I get over it.

Does anyone else corset themselves this tightly? I'm not into corset training, but I do enjoy wearing them quite a bit.

[Margaret]

The 2" (apprx.) compression I get from my corset is enough for me. It gives me nice support and I can still move.

Any tighter and I am just uncomfortable and not having fun.

[Lady Sarah]

Well this is garb related, so I hope it goes here..

Anyway, I'm working on getting my hands on a 22" corset. Right now I can wear my 24" corset (underbust style) all day, laced completely. I have a natural 29"-30" (depending on what I ate, time of day, ect.) waist.

Sometimes my lower back will hurt, sometimes it won't. Eventually I get over it.

Does anyone else corset themselves this tightly? I'm not into corset training, but I do enjoy wearing them quite a bit.

Wow, a 5-6" compression... and your back hurts from time to time? No wonder. I'm sure that you're pressing on a nerve or your lower ribs might be protesting.

Honestly, you're heading into the waist training arena and 8" isn't going to be any more comfortable, imo.

Nikki would be able to tell you more about it, but from what I've heard from other corsetiers, if there's pain, it's ill-fitting.

I hadn't even laced my leather corsets that tightly when I wore them. However, the waist ribbon caused some issues with me because I was longer bodied than the corset itself - hence it dug into my ribs. I also have some issues with numbness in my legs, but that's because I've got a vertebra or two still out of alignment. Like Mags, 2-3 inches is usually the best compression. Anything more than that might start deforming your ribcage and displacing some internal items.

[DoñaNina]

Stupid organ displacement. ><

Usually I'm fine with the compression because I am very small boned, but I'm wondering if 7-8" might be too much. Grr.. well.. I'll see how much I can get away with.

[WenchLadyKate]

Stupid organ displacement. ><

Usually I'm fine with the compression because I am very small boned, but I'm wondering if 7-8" might be too much. Grr.. well.. I'll see how much I can get away with.

If you hurt sometimes, why would you want to hurt all the time? Lower back pain is nothing to be ignored. Pain is the way your body tells you that something is wrong... so, if your lower back hurts sometimes, something IS wrong and it is unhappy. Why would you want to make it worse?

7-8" too much? Yea, probably. Anything more than 6" and you're going into the waist training area. If that's what you want to do, then that's cool, just find the right CUSTOM corset to help you do so. Don't just look for one that is the correct size, because it may not be the correct shape.

[DoñaNina]

I'm pretty lucky in that the corsets I buy are very well suited to my body shape. Many find them too short waisted, but luckilly, I'm short, so they fit me perfect.

Also.. um.. this is OT.. but while searching for corsets on Yahoo!.. I found this?

http://www.petticoated.com/

...weird.

[Ysobelle]

I'm not into corset training...

Um, yes you are.

[DoñaNina]

No I'm not. Corset training means wearing a corset nearly 24 hours a day, in your sleep, at the beach, at work, ect. I only wear mine at faire, or at a club.

[Ysobelle]

Anyway, I'm working on getting my hands on a 22" corset. Right now I can wear my 24" corset (underbust style) all day, laced completely.

How, exactly, are you defining corset training?

[DoñaNina]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corset_training

That's the definition I've always used. I don't wear corsets often at all, only when I want to do something very dramatic.