Getting a corset on by yourself is HARD
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Getting a corset on by yourself is HARD
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@littlekitty I heard the "pro" corset wearers use often a door handle to pull the lacing tighter.
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@Reinald that would be counterproductive: to pull the lacing tighter at the waist you have¹ to pull the laces out to the sides, a door handle would pull backwards both laces and not really help.
the hard bit is more the fine manipulation involved with picking up the right strand of lace at the bust and the hips, where you want to to pull tight, but not too tight, as you need room for things to expand when the waist is pulled tight.
¹ assuming you're using the most common way of lacing a corset in relatively recent times, with cross laces and bunny ears at the waist
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@valhalla (for a non native speaker: what do you mean with bunny ears with regards to corset lacing?)
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@Reinald I think it's the technical term rather than an English term (I'm not a native speaker either), it's a loop of lacing that exits from an eyelet on one side and re-enters on the eylet below it from the same side, at waist level, rather than going to the other side as at all other positions.
an internet search for the term should provide pictures and/or videos (some of them may not be SFW, especially in the most prudish workplaces)
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@Reinald and this is an extremely safe, but possibly not very readable, diagram:
sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/…
the bunny ears are the two diamond bits at the lower half
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@valhalla yeah, youtube/internet answered it. I was just too slow for searching.
We use a strong thin rope thingie rather than a soft ribbon, for tight fit. I usually pull the bunny ears quite strong, and after that I distribute the tension across the cross lacing more evenly. Since I pull them straight backwards imagine that it works pretty much the same when you use a door knob/handle.
When you have the bunny ears long enough, you can pull and bind around the waist.
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@Reinald I've heard that binding the laces around the waist while tightlacing may add more strain to the corset, wearing it out earlier, but I have no direct experience with it.
I know of people who wear reenactment corsets and do it, but those are laced more loosely, and most importantly they often just have strong coutil on the outside rather than a more delicate fashion fabric. (and sometimes I do it too, because making a knot on the front is less of a hassle than making it on the back, but I do it with single layer coutil corsets)
