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Gwynvyd -> RE: inexpensive underbust corsets (11/23/2007 9:01:03 PM)
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ORIGINAL: BootBlackBlast
Yeah I had bought two corsets from alter-ego with the intent of returning one to see which one I liked better and had no problem whatsoever. She even offered to custom size or design one for me... I have custom high dollar corsets from Dark Garden, the old Stormy Leather (WILL NEVER GO BACK NOW), and many other private corset makers. My partner and her husband are featured in Larry Utley's book Undressing the Corset. So trust me, I know my way around them. And quite frankly, not everyone can afford to or even wants to drop $200-$600 on a custom corset. After having mine made in the past, I'm no longer wearing them due to weight loses and changes in clothing style. So, AE does it for me now, and I treat them as costume clothing. Something, I don't mind spilling beer on, losing, having stolen, changes in weight or otherwise. If I get two or three wearings out of them that's great, but even now I'm going on almost two years with my first AE corset and it's still in amazing shape. And not for nothing, my AE corsets are the only ones to not have snapped boning on the immediate outside channels of my lacing. Most all my other corsets, Custom uber expensive ones included have all snapped there.
Is that boning poking through the fabric? or the boning itself snapped?
In either case it should not happen if done correctly.. unless you are super tight lacing it to death. Even then.. yikes.
I like using eyes < as in hooks and eyes> in double rows instead of gromets on my womens corsets. If you dont puncture the fabric.. there is no damage to it. Also the eyes can take a lot of wear and tear. ( it is what the Elizabethans used.. them are some smart people. )
With the eyes you dont have so much focused tugging on any one given spot for it to screw up the fabric, or cause boning issues.
Good luck with your corsets!
Gwyn,
Who loves hers.
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