I made a bit of money selling text ads on my website, so I was going to have no_baka make an underbust corset for me, with mockup and everything. Unfortunately she had to cancel, so I turned to Meschantes on eBay instead. I ordered their Courtesan Underbust style, which is no longer available on their website - if it ever was, since I can’t find it in Archive.org either. It looks like this from the front and this from the back (these pictures contain lingerie but are not explicit, so it’s mildly NSFW) but I’m planning to get one without all that rick-rack.

I’m probably going to get this corset in a 24″ waist. At the end of 2005, I was wearing corsets with a 32″ waist, but I’ve lost enough weight since then that I’ve come down several inches! I had to request extra-long laces, and I will be wearing it with a huge gap in the back, but hopefully I will be shrinking into it over the coming months. I know I can wear a 26″ easily, and I want this one to last me slightly longer than my others have!

The only question is - what fabric to get? I’m trying to choose from these nine patterns, and I’d like to be able to possibly wear it for platform interpreting (leather stuff) so I wouldn’t want it to be overly busy/distracting or have it blend completely with my skin. But I like all of those nine…so I don’t know which one to get!