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June 20th, 2006
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OMG!
The whole time I looked at these pictures from laracorsets addition to her antique corset collection, the only thing I could think was "oh, my god!" Over, and over, and over, with each new picture.


http://www.laracorsets.com/Antique_corset_2005.0083.htm


The detail! /swoons

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From:smartchick76
Date:June 20th, 2006 02:23 pm (UTC)

laracorsets

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wow is right! >MM
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From:laracorsets
Date:June 20th, 2006 02:23 pm (UTC)
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Thank you! I see my sharing of the collection is working. It's all part of my evil plan to conquer the world and make everyone love antique corsets!
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From:solan_t
Date:June 20th, 2006 03:00 pm (UTC)
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But then you will have to spend MORE money to buy new additions for your collection at auction!
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From:laracorsets
Date:June 20th, 2006 03:04 pm (UTC)
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Yeah, but I just love them so much too!
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From:silverfae
Date:June 20th, 2006 04:45 pm (UTC)
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Exquisite. Absolutely. and this...http://www.laracorsets.com/Antique_corset_2002.0011.htm

aiee.
But then, I see that same in yours too. Even with the corsets, I just don't have that waist thing.
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From:solan_t
Date:June 20th, 2006 04:56 pm (UTC)
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Some of those I just don't see how anyone could be shaped like that, but maybe it's just that they always wore corsets. Such a tiny, tiny torso (not just waist - tiny up to the bust, you notice?) and huge bust and hips, comparatively speaking.


As for 'that waist thing' I don't think the butterfly corset is a good corset to judge by - it had VERY little different between waist and hips. I had to do some extraordinary things with the pattern to get anything like the waist differential I wanted/expected.
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From:silverfae
Date:June 20th, 2006 05:11 pm (UTC)
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I think we're all built *sturdier* these days... it seems all the Victorian clothing I've seen is so teeny through the shoulders too.

My mum was a 20-21 inch waist naturally in the 50s. She was only 5'2", but she had the most amazing wasp-waist. She also hardly ate growing up, not from dieting, but rationing and lack of food. Maybe her guts actually got bigger from finally getting good nutrition, lol.
I just don't have much of a waist/hip ratio at all. And it's getting worse, haha!
From:starstraf
Date:June 20th, 2006 08:28 pm (UTC)
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Amy (Wasp Creations) does SERIOUS corset training
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From:silverfae
Date:June 20th, 2006 09:40 pm (UTC)
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*gulp* Is she the woman they featured in the Pitch a few years ago?
I'd love to do that, but not sure it would work with my job right now.
From:starstraf
Date:June 20th, 2006 09:49 pm (UTC)
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Yeap, that is her. She's moving from KC to NYC soon
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From:bellanorth
Date:June 20th, 2006 05:24 pm (UTC)
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What a lovely link, thank you.
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From:themadblonde
Date:June 22nd, 2006 09:46 pm (UTC)

Le Wow!

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Of course, they were paying seamstresses slave wages to make most of those. Beautiful things, though.
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From:darkgaze2002
Date:June 24th, 2006 03:59 am (UTC)
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YOu know every way to tempt me!!!! ack... I am glued to the screen....
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From:solan_t
Date:June 24th, 2006 12:27 pm (UTC)
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Blame it all on Lara! I'm just spreading the drooling around.
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From:darkgaze2002
Date:June 24th, 2006 11:28 pm (UTC)
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It's easier though, to blame you.
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