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 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…
My Loafers Slip At The Heel And I Wanted To Know If Thats Normal
My roommate walked in on me standing on one leg in the hallway, heel hovering half out of a penny loafer like I was mid escape from a burning building,…
Open Toe Heels In Winter Got Me A Look At The Bus Stop, I Wore Them Anyway
A woman at the 17th Avenue stop looked at my toes, looked at her own boots, looked back at my toes, and said absolutely nothing, which is its own kind…
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…
The Corset Organs Rumour Followed Me Into A Fitting Room And I Finally Looked It Up
I was standing in a fitting room in a shop that will remain nameless, half in and half out of a underbust corset I’d bought for a dress that needed…