We usually don’t do corsets up here – the corsets we talk about for strapless dresses are really more rigid long-line girdles, but that’s such an old lady word, right? – there are better places in Chicago to take corset making classes than here.  Look, we’re honest about our strong points.

But if they aren’t in season… And we like you as a person… And you are good at arm-twisting… And then… we guess you get what you want.

The thing is that if you have finished a corset and you have never worn a corset before…

It is great!  All of the sudden you are the shapeliest, comeliest girl at the Moulin Rouge…

And then…

GET ME OUT GET ME OUT GET ME OUT GET ME OUT.

We’ll forgo the picture of her on the floor trying to breathe after getting out of it.

We hope we won’t have to revive the Anti-Tight-Lacing movement.

You just have to practice… and know that you can only lace so tight if you are a grown woman whose never worn a corset before. The more you know.