Tons of ~ma for Owen and calm~ma for his mommy.

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.

waves to the assembled -

congratulations to the BeeTeas! And ~ma to Owen.

Hugs to those what want them.

::digs back into mountain of paperwork::

That's an awesome-looking corset, Tep! I hope it fits like a, well, like a corset.

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.

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

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.

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!

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 haz corset! I can't report on how it fits when the laces are tightened, since my Official Lace-Tightener is at work. But I put it on with the laces loose, and it's quite nice. It really *is* solidly constructed. I'm impressed. I couldn't ask more from a $99 corset.

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.

I want a pinstriped one! My Meschantes is an underbust, and I love how it fits. If I ever get an overbust, it'll have to be custom.

No one at my library had been pregnant for 16 years before I announced in December.

I may be loopy, my first thought was, "Wow. Pregnant for 16 years? Gotta be a record."