Black Lives Matter.
Strait Laced Dame Corsetry
by Heidi Wagner
1y ago
    I acknowledge that I’m a privileged white woman who was born in a racist country, taught in public schools with racist curriculum, raised on racist TV shows, cared for by doctors in a racist medical system, and let off with so many “warnings” by racist cops when I forget to turn my headlights on after dark. And yes, I’ve been ignorant of pretty much all of that until very recently due to *MY OWN FAILURE* to educate myself. There’s a wealth of anti-racist reading lists out there, and I just…didn’t bother before. What a sorry excuse. I’m not here to virtue signal, but I acknowle ..read more
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Out of the Sea - Foundations Revealed Competition 2021
Strait Laced Dame Corsetry
by Heidi Wagner
1y ago
Up front… The Foundations Revealed competition is an annual tradition that I have chosen to participate in only three times up to this point. This is an event that calls upon the talents and creativity (and spare time) of remarkable makers across the world. If you have ever found yourself interested in participating, I highly encourage it. No purchase or paid membership is required (only a free membership for logging into the Foundations Revealed website), and you can learn more about it all here.   The “Out of the Sea” corset, draped gown, and shelled mask - created and worn by Heidi of ..read more
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Custom Corset Raffle – Supporting Black Communities and Police Reform
Strait Laced Dame Corsetry
by Heidi Wagner
1y ago
     Building off of my June 12th post, I acknowledge that I cannot sit on my hands in regards to injustices that have been ever-present in my society, but which many of us are only now truly waking up to face. Now is the time to utilize our time, talents, and treasures to create meaningful change - and in my case, that means putting my corset-making skills and supplies to use. Strait-Laced Dame Corsetry will be giving away a custom underbust corset, made to your exact measurements - and all you have to do to enter this giveaway is donate. To Enter To enter this corset raffle ..read more
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I Want to Start Waist Training. Help!
Strait Laced Dame Corsetry
by Heidi Wagner
1y ago
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How to Break In Your Corset (Seasoning Your Corset)
Strait Laced Dame Corsetry
by Heidi Wagner
1y ago
What does “seasoning” your corset mean? Once you have received your corset and inspected it to make sure it has arrived in good shape, you are ready to start breaking it in!  Breaking in your corset, often called “seasoning”, is an incredibly important stage in your corset’s life, as well as your relationship with your corset. Tightening a corset completely when it is brand new, especially when you have just started waist training, can cause damage to the garment.  You may warp bones in your corset, or you may hurt yourself. The seasoning process allows you to slowly acquaint your bo ..read more
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Clarity - Shaping the Body with a PVC Corset Dress
Strait Laced Dame Corsetry
by Heidi Wagner
1y ago
Every year, around the first Monday of February, the deadline arrives for the Foundations Revealed competition. This event inspires creators across the world to concoct some new garment based on a given theme, all in the spirit of pushing oneself to the next levels in design, sewing, and presentation. In 2019, the theme was “Architecture”, and this is what led me to create this transparent PVC corset dress. Titled “Deconstruct” based on one of the forms of architecture that I tend to find myself most attracted to - deconstructivism, though brutalism is an equal favorite - I completed this expe ..read more
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The Leviathan Corset, by Crimson Rose Corsetry
Strait Laced Dame Corsetry
by Heidi Wagner
1y ago
Let me begin this entry by clearly stating that this gorgeous corset is the work of Crimson Rose Corsetry Couture, made in 2016.  Now, let's move on to admiring this work of wearable art. Lean in for this. The "Leviathan" corset is one that allow for remarkable flexibility, thanks to the sports mesh that makes up the four side panels.  Further consider the clever patterning that comfortably contours a sway back, and it's clear that this corset can handle a good amount of movement. This corset was hand-crafted, from measurements to final product by the creator behind Crimson Rose Cor ..read more
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An Experiment in Mesh and Colors
Strait Laced Dame Corsetry
by Heidi Wagner
1y ago
For the most part, I've oriented the Strait-Laced Dame brand toward creating hyper-functional corsets, custom-designed and hand made for each clients.  This often means neutral colors and straight-forward colors (i.e. black, beige, white).  However, there are times when this pattern is disrupted by a slightly more imaginative combination of elements.  Even more exciting is the opportunity for me to create a corset that is designed solely for myself. The Silk and Powermesh Corset When the drive to create overpowers the desire to forget an old, half-finished project, lovely thing ..read more
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Time Spent in a Corset
Strait Laced Dame Corsetry
by Heidi Wagner
1y ago
The terms “minimum effective dose” and “law of diminishing returns” seem to be plucked directly from language relegated to textbooks alone.  But how can either of these convoluted concepts be at all related to a corseted lifestyle?  Let’s not forget that wearing a corset as a matter of daily life means that we must pull knowledge from every branch of scientific research.  It is, after all, a form of body modification that effects the entire torso.  In this case, we can evaluate just how effective our efforts at waist training are with the guidance of both a medical and an e ..read more
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Second Skin - The Magicicada Corset Bodysuit
Strait Laced Dame Corsetry
by Heidi Wagner
1y ago
Prime Slumber The North American genus of Magicicada emerge from the earth precisely every 13 or 17 years, depending on the brood. The Conception The intense humidity of summer sets in, as it always does, rhythmically, palpably.  Without fail, the heat summons the cries of the magicada, awoken from a prime slumber. Be it thirteen or seventeen years since the swarm has arisen, the mass immerges with great fanfare and rejoicing. They have slept, they have waited the precise time allotted by nature, and now they emerge to shed their subterranean selves in a perfectly synchronized spectacle ..read more
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