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‘After an early familiarization with corsets, my middle years of non-corseting, and three natural childbirths and two cesarians left me with absolutely no abdominal muscle tone. I returned with very long corsets, in which I found it easier to stay laced than to be uncorseted and recorseted. My only physical problems have been with skin chafing. Comfortable at 16 and 17 inches, for special occasions I can lace down to 15’. Cathy is surely now, and has been for a decade or more, the best - publicised tight - lacer in the USA.
Her appearance at the opening of the Museum of Modern Art’s “The Corset: Fashioning the Body”, curated by Valerie Steele, elicited a report in the Los Angeles Times in praise of the ‘well-preserved Connecticut woman’ who has permanently shrunk her waist from 28 to 15 inches.
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She won the ‘Achievement in Tight lacing’ award at the 1989 Dressing for Pleasure gala, among others, and has appeared on TV internationally, notably in Tokyo, and Germany, where her husband, Bob Jung, an orthopaedic surgeon who encourages her habit, addressed the audience on the basis of X-ray photographs of his wife, to show that all is well within the 38cm circumference, ‘the smallest (proportionately) in the world’ (she is 5ft 6in tail, 39 bust and hips).
Such photographs, which are unique of their kind, have appeared in fashion histories, notably Valerie Steele’s, who in her latest Corset apotheosised her in a blaze of polychrome luminary glory over a full page.
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