A feat of engineering

Oct 15, 2019 11:44 PM

A feat of engineering

Zip ties are good and legal substitutes for the baleen that used to be used. If you plan on making a pair of stays like those, at least.

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It's a corset, and probably bone.

6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

lots of other people saying whale bones ... technically it would have been baleen, not bones

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whale bones.

6 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 0

Whale bone, but modern corsets have steel boning, which we do use for bridges.

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I’m steel boning your mom.

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She’s inserted a stick (a yardstick?) down the corset to keep a posture straight while it gets tightened, but how will she remove it? Yikes!

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It is called a “busk” and there’s a channel for it in the corset(AKA “stays”). You can google “busk images” to see some :)

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Is this a fetish?

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Lol, no- legit question, tho. I’m a re-enactor. Specifically American colonial period, so anywhen from 1590-1780.

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