The corsetry community can be a pedantic bunch. I say this unironically, I know that I am also guilty of a certain degree of pedantry as a corsetmaker — one need look no farther than What (You Didn’t Know) to Look for in a Corset to see the evidence as I obsess over pattern matching at the center front. We all have our pet peeves. One thing that often gets the […]
While there is something to be said for the mystique of corsetry, it has a side effect of creating a bit of a barrier, seeming distant, untouchable… and therefore daunting, and avoided. “What do I wear it with?” women ask me, somewhat bewildered, when I’m fitting for Dark Garden. “Where do your clients wear them?” people ask me when I talk about my line, Pop Antique. As soon as you […]
