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Let me start from the top. When did you first
begin to reduce your waist and what was your
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motivation for that? Actually I first started wearing a
corset, a tight lacing, back actually when I was probably
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18 or 19 and it was mostly because we were
interested in Victorian costuming and if you're
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going to wear a Victorian dress and have it
look appropriate you need to wear the right
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underwear so it was just one thing led to
another and I started wearing a corset to
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make the Victorian dresses look appropriate. Victorian fashion has
kind of had a renaissance of late hasn't it? I believe in the last 10
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or 15 years that fashion has kind
of come back into fashion again
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Yes it has and it's been surprising but there's
been a lot. There were movies that portrayed
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people wearing Victorian clothing, cotton
garments and of course there were people that
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sort of did the outerwear corsets.
Does the corset affect your breathing
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Actually it does not affect my breathing at
all. I've been doing it so long and also just
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started wearing it so slowly, increasing or
decreasing my waist size so gradually that
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I didn't have any issue with breathing. If
you start having breathing issues or any other
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kind of issue it means you're not doing things correctly. I've been wearing
a corset full time probably 45 to 50 years. The first time I wore a corset
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was just for social, fun kind of Victorian
costuming and that was probably when I was
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18 or 19 or even earlier than that. Back in
my early teen years that's when merry widows
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were in style and that was really basically
an elastic garment, more akin to a girdle
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of today. There can't be that many corset makers
left around anymore is that correct or has there
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been a bit of a resurgence in corset fashion? Right now there are
corset makers that don't stop and I think if anybody's interested you
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can go online there are a couple of people
that have documented all the corset makers
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around the world and they
come up in the hundreds
