Prom drama: Corset advice for big girls
Dear Mookychick,
I am having trouble with corsets. Being a tree instead of a twig, I have some extra lipid tissue. I love my corsets, I love everything about them, in fact. However, I like tight lacings, and every time I tightlace a fat roll develops. I'm planning on wearing a corset over my dress, but a fat roll over the thing is not very becoming. Other than losing weight (which I'm working on [10 pounds woo-hoo ]), got any ideas on how to reduce or eliminate the hideous thing?
Help!
Love, Anonymous Me xxx
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Sky says...
Firstly, more voluptuous ladies need the support of a fully steel-boned corset. Very cheap corsets that you can buy online (anything less than £50 new) are likely to be steel-boned at the front and not throughout... This is usually only in the fine print. Plastic boning will just bend, giving you the unpleasant roll you described.
A modesty panel is very important for you if you decide to wear the corset on bare skin as it covers the crease that corsets create in the skin on your back. This happens whatever size you are and the tighter you've laced, the more noticable the crease is.
Lastly, corsets are very good at pulling in the waist but don't have as much control with the front of our stomach. Wearing tummy-control underwear beneath the dress before you put on the corset may help give you the shape you want. This may definitely be worth a try if the corset you want to wear isn't fully steel boned.
xxx sky
Milly says...
I would say either a) don't lace so tight for now, not in public anyway if you're wanting a smooth outline, or b) get another corset for the Prom. I'm assuming this corset is an underbust, would an overbust be possible without ruining the look of the dress? That way any squidge is in the bosom area, or bum if it squidges down, and won't look too odd (bums and boobs suit squidge). The cheapest option though is 'a', and although it might not feel right, unless the prom is filled with corsetieres on their night off no-one else will notice that it's not tightened as tight as normal.
Longer term, keep up with the exercise, and include lots of avocados, almonds and olive oil in your diet as they contain monounsaturated fatty acids which have been shown, in a study by the American Diabetes Association, to help reduce belly/torso fat.
xx Milly
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