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redd 2007-06-07, 23:33 #1
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Subject: Male Corsetry Blog
In the past week or so, I've started work on a blog devoted to male corsetry.  It will feature pictures, stories, accounts of experiences, and also summaries (and critiques) of research tangentially related to corsetry.

And, while I'm not nearly experienced enough to provide advice, hopefully I'll be able to get advice from others through comments!

http://malecorsetry.blogspot.com
Annalai (Moderator) 2007-06-27, 13:47 #2
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Hi,

I took a look at your blog. Maybe this article about Mr Pearl is interesting for you.

http://www.mothernyc.com/verbal/pearl.html

But I do wonder about the tightlacing collage you have put together. I see Fakir Musafa and Mr. Pearl, but who is the women on the top right? She just looks like a model that I do not recognise as a tightlacer. On the next row I see pictures of tightlacers Ethel and Cathy and another one of Ethel when she was younger.

My guess is that the women showing a rather small waist may be this woman:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Fonssagrives

She was famous for having a natural small waist, but was not a tightlacer.
http://www.art-is-life.com/lisa.htm

 
Take a look at following site. There you can see several women with a reasonably small waist and I guess most of them wear a girdle or a corset.  But I do not think many of them if any, were tightlacing in the sense we mean today, when we think of tightlacers like Cathie or Ethel.

In the end of the 40's and in the 50's it was common to wear a girdle or a corset and even to have padding on the hips sometimes to make the waist look smaller. Also, many dresses and especially evening dresses were boned.
On the site given below, plenty of other women are shown with the same sort of small waist. Those days are gone for long now and I only wish they came back. I think the woman you showed is just a model and the dress is from a designer named Maurice Rentner.
http://www.apph25.dsl.pipex.com/bygone/bygone4.html

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Annalai (Moderator) 2007-06-27, 13:54 #3
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This part of the text about Lisa sounds like she was eating like a tightlacer.

Known for her seventeen inch waistline, Lisa carried a cloth tape measure which she handed to any who doubted this implausible measurement.  Asked how she maintained her beautiful figure, she expounded the importance of eating in small quantities and she was known to consume up to ten tiny meals a day.  A tiny meal might consist of six grapes, one cracker, one slice of cheese and half a glass of wine.  She was always eating something; but never anything much. 

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redd 2007-06-30, 21:31 #4
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Thanks for the feedback. 

I didn't put the collage together.  I've had it saved for some time and can't actually find the source for it.  If anyone has it, please let me know so I can recognize the source.

Also, thanks for pointing to the interview with Mr. Pearl.  That's very interesting.  I'll post a link to it on my blog.

Thanks again - redd
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