tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post5952262121516415705..comments2024-03-14T16:03:32.434-04:00Comments on Gertie's New Blog for Better Sewing: Corsets as Outerwear?Gertiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04314542159287533507noreply@blogger.comBlogger88125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-47653354428621480942013-05-08T02:01:09.580-04:002013-05-08T02:01:09.580-04:00In your budget finding a powerful Android smartpho...In your budget finding a powerful Android smartphone having a Quad Core processor may have been hard but now as <a href="http://www.antelife.com/zopo-zp980-mtk6589-quad-core-android-4-2-5-0-inch-first-fhd-screen-440ppi-13-0mp-camera-smart-phone.html" rel="nofollow">Zopo ZP980</a> is available you should purchase it immediately. 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It wasn't until the later 18th century until it became exclusively an undergarment.<br /><br />Source: Elizabeth Ewings, Dress and Undress: A history of Women's Underwear (New York: Drama Book Specialists, 1978), also clearly visible in the back of Elizabethan gowns.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-16819894695094175562013-04-28T02:49:35.097-04:002013-04-28T02:49:35.097-04:00So that you'll know more about the phone, here...So that you'll know more about the phone, here are some of its features. <a href="http://www.antelife.com/free-shipping-pre-sale-jiayu-g3-mtk6577-android-4-0-3g-dual-core-4-5-qhd-capacitive-touch-screen-black.html" rel="nofollow">jiayu g3</a> has an operating system of Android 4.1 Jelly bean and a processor of MTK MT6577 1GHz dual-core.jiayu g3http://www.antelife.com/free-shipping-pre-sale-jiayu-g3-mtk6577-android-4-0-3g-dual-core-4-5-qhd-capacitive-touch-screen-black.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-2030703647210308952013-04-22T02:20:11.354-04:002013-04-22T02:20:11.354-04:00nyway, enough of my rambling. 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Someone on here mentioned Spanx... they can take an inch off of your waist max. A corset can be laced to take several inches off of your waist. <br />Spanx can not alter the body's natural shape into vintage silhouettes. You need stiff fabric and boning.<br />I'm not hating on Spanx. I wear them every day that I leave the house to go somewhere other than walmart.<br /><br />I'm going to make my own corset some day, I just need to improve my sewing skills a lot.Laurenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12623607087443026613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-32577034724525318482012-09-04T01:48:31.398-04:002012-09-04T01:48:31.398-04:00Hi!
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But maybe I've been influenced from my youth by some types of fantasy/games illustrations (of course now that I'm looking for it I can't find any example). I know it's something that seems quite natural to me, but something I associated with out of the ordinary outfits/styles rather than with a pair of jeans for example. And I feel some corsets look too much like lingerie items to be worn outside. <br />I know that people who wear historical clothing wear corsets underneath to get the proper silhouette. I think most of the others don't really feel the need to wear a corset as underwear, people who want to look thinner will probably look for more comfortable and easy to find items. Plus there is quite a strong image associated with corsets. When I told my colleagues about my wedding outfit some of them instantly asked if it wasn't painful, if I wasn't afraid to faint or associated it with fetish. Girdles don't generate that kind of reactions I guess.<br />What I don't like so much about corsets as innergarments is that, since it reduces the waist, you have to make special dresses for them that you won't be able to wear without them. I like to be able to make the most out of my clothes. As another commenter pointed out, that may also be one reason why less people wear them, as most of us don't make or order custom-made clothes.<br />Sorry for the long comment... You brought up a very interesting point.Lholy-chanhttp://anomori.com/blognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-10952546956804695022012-08-16T15:28:06.077-04:002012-08-16T15:28:06.077-04:00Very interesting debate you started up here, Gerth...Very interesting debate you started up here, Gerthie!<br />For me, corsets are to be worn outside, for several reasons. To begin with, they make no sense any more since the invention of plastic fibers and stretch fabrics. Spanx girdles make the job far better for the obvious reasons. Now, I've heard they are addicitive, so I am keeping away from those. I still remember my mum in those every day, even in summer. Somehow, we have get rid of those, and become used to less perfectly shaped sillouettes, and I want to keep that way.<br />Now, to wear a corset outside is another matter. I find them beautiful and extreme, bizarre looking. I can imagine lots of different outfits to wear them. As I commented on my blog, I once tried one on, and it was really an experience. And some day, before I am too old, I will endevour the adventure of making myself one. <br />There, Gerthie, it is been very inspiring and interesting to follow you doing one and researching about it.Mertxehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10126670153437138246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-26963831428656278122012-08-15T17:02:30.918-04:002012-08-15T17:02:30.918-04:00And while others have mentioned The Dreamstress...And while others have mentioned The Dreamstress's article on the differences between various corset-like garments, I'll add her recent article on fitting corsets:<br />http://thedreamstress.com/2012/08/what-size-should-your-corset-be-and-how-tightly-should-you-lace-it/<br />Seeing as others have already touched the issue.Hana - Marmotahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03532515160608083460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-29736648829374381612012-08-15T16:40:50.122-04:002012-08-15T16:40:50.122-04:00I'm not a knee-jerk feminist and I agree with ...I'm not a knee-jerk feminist and I agree with that; I just don't think the former is necessarily a good thing or the latter necessarily a bad one. :-)Hana - Marmotahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03532515160608083460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-73349857014172076232012-08-15T16:37:55.593-04:002012-08-15T16:37:55.593-04:00And Swiss waists, as even the name suggests, I thi...And Swiss waists, as even the name suggests, I think, are based on European folk costume, where corset-like garments (or bodices) are usually worn as outerwear.Hana - Marmotahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03532515160608083460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-48972958164223318992012-08-14T18:32:41.115-04:002012-08-14T18:32:41.115-04:00Personally for me I have only ever worn my corsets...Personally for me I have only ever worn my corsets as underwear. Not only am I a conservative dresser but I am gifted in the bosom area and always feel like I am a streetwalker if I wear it on the outside. I love my corsets as underwear, I feel like they are a hug that I need during the day. Also several years ago I trained my waist and it was painful to start and painful to stop, even to this day it feels not quite right without some form of compression undergarment. I could take my waist down from a 30in to 22in, but I was part of the goth scene and it looked cool to have my corset on underneath and then a really fitted dress with a wide belt (I had a belt that had a huge crystal spider with its legs wrapping around my waist). I had delusions of Matrix stylish gothic grandeur, specifically of Monica Bellucci in her latex dress in the second movie. I don’t wear corsets anymore, I just don’t have time in the morning to get all laced in (and honestly my husband wouldn’t want to tighten me up to the level that I had liked, he would be afraid of hurting me), but everyday even on weekends I wear my spanx and get that little hug that makes me feel right.Meagan Wnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-47405168458078167642012-08-13T19:13:26.085-04:002012-08-13T19:13:26.085-04:00The Playboy Bunny bodice is a spiral steel-boned c...The Playboy Bunny bodice is a spiral steel-boned corset worn as outerwear beneath a layer of bridal satin. Hef simply dispensed with the laces, and the costume is sewn to fit the wearer exactly.<br /><br />We have a couple of reproduction costumes so good that the manufacturer got into trouble with Hef's lawyers. The bodice is a cool piece of engineering.Roscoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18024719387913982327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-59752657133005572882012-08-13T18:43:50.585-04:002012-08-13T18:43:50.585-04:00My knee-jerk feminist reaction would be that corse...My knee-jerk feminist reaction would be that corsets as outer wear are a statement of power and corsets as underwear are an attempt to change the body to be more in line with an arbitrary standard of beauty...but, that could just be me.TatteredSpinnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464850359953881693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-54910365328612454572012-08-13T15:05:36.071-04:002012-08-13T15:05:36.071-04:00Oh - second rant. A modern saloon-girl or lingeri...Oh - second rant. A modern saloon-girl or lingerie corset is designed along Victorian lines, to give you a 19th-century-fashionable shape. A 16th through 18th-century bodies, bodice, or (18th cent) corset is designed to lift *and flatten* the bosom - it gives a completely different silhouette. They are not interchangeable, if you're interested in historical accuracy.<br />I'm not sure if the corset styles resulted in a different posture - I haven't done enough comparison of the two styles on the same person (which would be me) to tell for sure - but the artwork of the two periods leads me to wonder . . . 16th century through, maybe, the French Revolution, many women are pictured square-shouldered with their heads up (like a Gibson Girl!), but during especially the middle half of the 19th century the shoulders are more sloped, the neck tips forward, the whole attitude is more meek (like the difference in posture noted in your New Look post last week). What I can tell you is that in my 16th-century bodies and gown, I get compliments on my posture.<br />/End costume-history-professor rant.Sandyhttp://magpiestitcher.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-56929070827620289922012-08-13T14:49:18.336-04:002012-08-13T14:49:18.336-04:00From a historical reenactor's perspective - se...From a historical reenactor's perspective - seconding somebody above - the original "stiffened bodies" which was started in the 16th century (possibly using hemp cord even before whalebone) could be either outer garment (over the shirt, as both jacket/waistcoat and support garment) or undergarment (over shirt, as support, but also UNDER jacket/waistcoat/gown) - the number of layers tended to have to do with how hard you were working, i.e. socioeconomically determined.<br />I've worn well-fitted 16th-century bodies, and they are NOT torture at all - I've told several women at RenFaire who asked, that they were at least as comfortable as either my underwire or my jogbra! (Excellent support, and no bouncing. And real tight-lacing didn't happen until two-part metal grommets began to be incorporated, in the late 18th or early 19th century - hand-worked eyelets will only take so much.) I'm 50, and I haven't gone braless since I hit puberty; I like dressing modestly and I do not find breast-bounce at all comfortable. (If your bra isn't comfortable, that's because it doesn't fit.) I think the saloon-girl-corset with jeans is usually a pretty tacky look. Victorian corset as outer garment in a Steampunk costume is fine (as long as it fits and covers some necessary minimum) - that whole genre is meant to be both edgy and tongue-in-cheek.<br />/End Rant.Sandyhttp://magpiestitcher.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-68899790664080888722012-08-13T12:06:25.993-04:002012-08-13T12:06:25.993-04:00I hadn't read the comments...till now!I hadn't read the comments...till now!Daisynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-39972690594125108252012-08-13T09:15:05.594-04:002012-08-13T09:15:05.594-04:00From my friend Pat: Where do the cinch belts I wo...From my friend Pat: Where do the cinch belts I wore in the 50's fit in this discussion" They were accessories and worn to accent your waist of your dress or your skirt. They did cinch in your waist and were made of stretchy materials. They were two to four inches wide. I loved mine and thought they made my waist look small. I don't know where they are now. Gone along with my panty girdle, seamed hose, long line bra and hat/gloves worn to complete your outfit. Great topic Gertie!kazoomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07624651180112508047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-58333801538193028932012-08-13T05:28:31.306-04:002012-08-13T05:28:31.306-04:00Nowadays I see corsets as outerwear, I have so muc...Nowadays I see corsets as outerwear, I have so much respect for women that used to wear them everyday, god knows how they did that! XxxX http://thesecondhandrose.blogspot.co.ukSecond Hand Rosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12937657828552984478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259455441759015869.post-81248170214299633092012-08-12T03:53:04.786-04:002012-08-12T03:53:04.786-04:00I just found you! I pre-ordered your book yesterda...I just found you! I pre-ordered your book yesterday and can't wait. I have decided that, with more and more vintage inspiration creeping into my wardrobe, and an hourglass figure that only a steel boned corset could contain, I need to learn to sew my own garments. I unfortunately haven't been blessed with sylph-like legs, or a great degree of patience. But in the words of the legendary Tim Gunn, I will make it work! Thanks for the inspiration! XXXPoppy Blackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15288867028294659038noreply@blogger.com