The Corset Diet

This morning on Good Morning America they reported on a new trend of women wearing corsets as way to reshape their bodies.  The reporter acted like wearing a corset five hours a day could somehow permanently reduce your waist when you were not wearing it.

I am not sure how tight these woman who are trying this are wearing these contraptions but it seems highly unlikely that you could squeeze fat from one area of your body to another and have it stay there.  And it sounds as if the fat is still on you somewhere, just not in the middle, what is the point of that?

Now I am all for some good shape ware.  I had my first real experience in my early twenties when I was a bridesmaid at one of the seventeen weddings I played a supporting role in.  Back in the eighties bridesmaids dresses often were missing parts like straps, backs or sleeves making women who had any endowment up front go running to the Dor Ne Corset shop in downtown Washington DC.  I can’t remember whose wedding it was that required me to get the X1100 waist cincher and strapless bra.  I can’t even recall what the dress looked like, but I do remember the under garments.

This two part, fully bones black lace number was both backless and strapless and not only could hold the girls in place but created the smallest waist on me I have ever had.  Mae West had nothing on me in the X1100.  I found every excuse to wear it long after that wedding had taken place.

The X1100 must have had 30 hooks on just the bottom piece of apparatus.  It was some feat just to get the thing on.  It made me look great, but I never would want to try and take it off in front of another human because that was none to attractive.  As much as I wore it I must say it never did any permanent reconfiguring of my body.  Yes, my waist was smaller and smother in it but only while it was on.

Sad to say I think the Dor Ne is gone.  Buy a corset if you really need one for a certain dress, but if you want to lose weight you are going to have to do it the old fashioned way and not eat as much.  I think squeezing is not going to make a big difference.