Hello,

I'm going into costume design,with a particular interest in corsets. for a project this year I made a corset, to show the popular shilouette in the 1900's. Quite a suprise since I'm a guy. And I must admit it was certainly an interesting experience! I wore it all day to school, but the corset kept feeling looser and looser during the day. by the end of school I had gone from a 36" waist to a 30" waist and then even smaller as my ribs conformed. What I was wondering is where I could find affordable custom corsets to wear with my costumes. by the way, I think you look fabulous!
Can't wait to hear back!

If you don't mind telling me where you live I would be happy to make some suggestions.
Cathie

Hello Cathie,

I am 16 from england and I have wearing corsets for about a year now and can lace from a 28 inch waist to a 22 inch at the moment I have 2 vollers and a deadly girls corset, I was just wondering if there are any corset brands you could recomend. I know you use custom made corsets but I cant realy afford those.
many thanks.

You could try JC Creations in Amsterdam. They might have a basic corset which you would find affordable. Their corsets are very nice. Look them up on line.
Cathie

Hello Cathie,

I just dropped in on your fascinating website for a visit. I am a British journalist based in New York City and I write for a number of national newspapers and magazines in the UK. A relatively new UK national weekly news magazine, In The Know, is a news-analysis magazine aimed mainly at women, looking at people and issues of worldwide topical interest. The features editor has asked me if I would be able to interview you for a piece for the magazine. I see that you are very used to doing publicity with publications, including British ones, and being asked questions by people all around the world. In The Know would like to introduce you to our readers, telling them about your interest in and dedication to the beauty and fashion of the hourglass figure, a supertrim waistline and corsetry.
I wonder if you would be kind enough to get back to me to discuss the possibility. If you would be willing, I'm sure I would be delighted to travel to Connecticut - or you might be swinging by NYC in the near future - whatever would be convenient.
I very much look forward to hearing back from you.

I would be happy to chat with you. I will give you other contact info when we speak.
Cathie

Cathie,

Thank you so much for sharing your story on the web. I would like to know if you ever wear your long Victorian dresses just to hang around at home, or to do ordinary things like going shopping or to restaurants. I think that would be an amazing site!
Also, I would imagine that both your husband and perfect strangers would find it quite exciting to see you going out in public wearing your custom-made clothing. I would like to know what it feels like to know that you are desired so much everywhere you go.

Thanks!

Thank you for taking time to write. I do wear my Victorian dresses in "appropriate" situations--Antique car meets at Mystic Seaport; Victoriian weekends at Cape May, NJ, boat rides on Victorian boats, etc.
The clothes I wear out to eat or to any social function are my custom made clothes and I do enjoy wearing them out and eliciting comments. Most are favorable and people seem genuinely interested.
Cathie

Dear Cathie

I was-delighted to "discover" you recently! I first found you in the "Guiness Book of Records" and followed this up, by finding out that you were-supposed to be on the "Tyra Banks Show" ["Sky" Channel 114] on the 25th October 2006. I watched the show, for-several consecutive nights but-you were not on it!! I am in England and am now 63. When i was 13 [in 1956] i saw a Victoria Corset, exhibited in a Museum and-from that moment-i was utterly enamoured to those Ladies who had worn that-style! This has followed me-all my life though, sadly, hardly any Lady, now, folows this fashion [the-only-fashion!] I have researched what i could about the fashion and-apparently it is not only-most pleasing on the eye but, apparently-quite pleasurable for the wearer. What I want to ask you is-if this is so [and-as the form of the "hourglass is very beautiful too]-why have Ladies, the World over, almost entirely abandoned the style which: inspired the British Empire and was so-excellent in it's appearance and effects? I believe that the wearing of this mode-may have been the main-reason that marriages, 100 years ago, would last for 30 or 40 years, or more [and not for perhaps only a year or two, or less as they frequently do-now, in this "sad age" we are all forced to live in!] I am grateful to know that such Ladies as yourself still exist and I would like to thank you for providing us all with the opportunity to-see this magnificen style and discipline in someone alive-now!! I am, Madam, your most grateful servant.

My corsets are really a part of me and I am more comfortable wearing them than not. The current generation is not going to wear anything that is even firm. This degeneration started with the advent of pantyhose and has progressed down hill ever since.
We are in the throes of moving so we did not get to see our bit on the Tyra Banks show when it first aired on October 11 and, like you,did not find it on the 25th. I called the producer to find out what happened and she was clueless. Hopefully one of our friends or fans have taped it as the network will not send us a copy. Go figure!!
Cathie

Dear Cathie,

Your extraordinary corseting is thrilling. I am a student in London currently studying the subject of dress and identity. I have spent my time recently enthralled in research of you and your story as I will be writing a dissertation exploring the extent to which dress can change the shape of the body. I am focusing on the practice of corseting, entailing its temporary and permanent effects, and you have become my pin-up, my piece de resistance for the paper. You have inspired me to purchase my first corset and carry out firsthand research. Of all the information I have gathered, none would compare to the prospect of a brief interview with you. I would be ever so grateful if you might be so kind as to reply with any possibility of correspondence. I truly look forward to your response.

I would be happy to communicate with you. I am happier to converse by phone and can call you on skype at your convenience if you send me a contact number and the besttimes to connect with you. I look forward to chatting with you. Bob sends his regards.
Cathie