I Went Digging Into Whether Corsets Cause Real Damage, Heres What I Found
I bought a $34 underbust corset off a resale app because the listing said “worn twice, too small,” and the seller was telling the truth on both counts. Too small…
Everyone Warned Me A Corset Would Be Miserable, My Experience Disagreed
Someone at the shop told me point blank that I’d regret it, said her sister wore one to a wedding and spent the entire reception “breathing like a woman in…
Calling A Corset Oppressive Feels Like A Nineties Argument Nobody Updated
I bought a corset off a resale app eleven months ago, a real one, boned with steel not plastic, laced up the back, and it sat in my closet for…
A Crop Top In A Business Casual Office Sounded Wrong Until I Thought It Through
Okay so my coworker Denise once wore a crop top to our Tuesday all hands and I spent the entire meeting staring at the two inches of stomach visible between…
A Lace Dress For A Wedding Guest Comes Down To The Lace Itself, Not The Dress
My friend Renata texted me a photo of a dress three weeks before her cousin’s wedding with the message “is this too much lace” and I stared at it for…
A Backless Dress As A Wedding Guest Might Come Down To The Venue More Than The Dress
Had a client last fall text me a photo from a dressing room, spine to waistband, asking “is this too much for a Tuesday wedding.” Not too much for a…
A Bodycon Dress At Work Comes Down To The Office More Than The Dress
I bought a bodycon dress for a Tuesday. Not a launch dinner, not a birthday, an actual regular Tuesday, because I had a client call at eleven and a leaving…
Sleeping In A Corset Split My Group Chat Down The Middle, Nobody Agreed
My group chat has forty three messages in it from a single Tuesday night, all sparked by one photo. A friend posted herself in bed wearing a lace up underbust…
My Personal Trainer Had Opinions About My Corset, I Wasnt Expecting That Conversation
“You know that’s not actually doing anything, right?” That’s what my trainer said, mid squat rack, while I was adjusting my underbust corset between sets like it was a normal…
A Sequin Dress As A Wedding Guest Felt Like Too Much, I Wasnt Sure Either
My brother texted me a photo of the dress three separate times before the wedding, no caption, just the photo again, like maybe I hadn’t understood it the first two…