~ma to you, Owen!
I'm eleven hundred and twenty years old! Just gimme a friggin' beer!
Anya ,'Storyteller'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Glamcookie - May 01, 2009 6:05:40 am PDT #8417 of 30000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Aims - May 01, 2009 6:07:33 am PDT #8418 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
~~~~~~~~~~ma to Owen and ~~~~~~~ma to his mommy and daddy!
sj - May 01, 2009 6:07:38 am PDT #8419 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Tons of ~ma for Owen and calm~ma for his mommy.
Steph L. - May 01, 2009 6:11:17 am PDT #8420 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
So, I decided to buy another corset, and UPS tells me it's out for delivery. How fortunate that I'm working at home today.
The store is Timeless Trends, and here's what I know about them: they only make 1 style, an underbust, and it's all OTR, no custom work. Because they make only the 1 style, and because it's all OTR, all their corsets are $99 (except the leather one, which is $139).
In reading through their site, as well as a LOT of different sites where people posted reviews, it sounds like the corsets are fairly well made. they're not lingerie corsets; they're true corsets made with spiral steel stays, a steel busk, and grommets. Also lined.
My major quibble is that there is no modesty panel in the back, or under the busk. But for $99, I can't complain, as long as the rest of the construction is as good as advertised.
The only negative reviews I read pertained to the fit: people who don't have an "hourglass" figure (and I don't mean an exaggerated one; I just mean people who don't have much of a waist-hip differential) didn't like the fit. Which, again, with an OTR corset, that's gonna happen.
So I decided to give it a shot, and see what I think. This is the one I'm getting: [link] Now UPS needs to get here!
t edit Are these as good as custom? Of course not. I don't need to have the corset in my hot little hands to know that. But I don't have the budget for a custom corset right now. And, like I said, with the exception of not having modesty panels, they sound like they're pretty well-made. We'll see.
hippocampus - May 01, 2009 6:38:41 am PDT #8421 of 30000
not your mom's socks.
waves to the assembled -
congratulations to the BeeTeas! And ~ma to Owen.
Hugs to those what want them.
::digs back into mountain of paperwork::
Scrappy - May 01, 2009 6:57:33 am PDT #8422 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
That's an awesome-looking corset, Tep! I hope it fits like a, well, like a corset.
JZ - May 01, 2009 7:05:10 am PDT #8423 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Oh my gosh, Tep, they've got gorgeous designs! And they look very nicely, solidly constructed. Yours looks terrific (and can't beat the price). Please to report as soon as it arrives!
I think I'm in love with this one.
Aims - May 01, 2009 7:13:46 am PDT #8424 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Sigh. Grades don't post any faster if I keep hitting refresh. Especially since the semester doesn't techinically end til Monday.
t giant neurotic about grades sigh
meara - May 01, 2009 7:20:11 am PDT #8425 of 30000
I have two of those, Teppy. One pinstripe and one leather. I adore them. They're great--and honestly, since I'm so small busted, they work better for me than my meschantes overbust ever did, really.
Sparky1 - May 01, 2009 7:25:07 am PDT #8426 of 30000
Librarian Warlord
No one at my library had been pregnant for 16 years before I announced in December. Today someone revealed she's due in October. I'm a trendsetter!