Where do we go from here?

Wow... almost three weeks have elapsed since I started lacing up again in earnest.  I've never really kept count, so I wouldn't like to say it's the longest period I've ever worn a corset regularly but it must be getting on for that, I would think.  I can't at the moment foresee any obvious reason to stop, and when I take it off briefly for 'essential maintenance' I can detect definite signs that it's beginning to have a permanent effect in terms of re-shaping my body and waistline.  Call me narcissistic but the new, slimmer me looks to me like a definite improvement on the old one.  Which is part of what corseting is all about, of course.

And I've loved doing it, too.  Being in a corset is a remarkably sensual experience.  While I don't consciously think about it every waking moment of the day, I can never really forget I'm in a corset.  A nudge here, a little hug there and the heightened sensitivity around my waist occasionally combine to give a distraction that borders on the erotic.

I've been tightening my laces periodically, too, since I started wearing the 28" ones - probably two or three times a week. I suspect I've got quite a long time before the back is fully closed, but then I've slipped back considerably from where I was in 2012 and able to get into a 26" one.  Watch this space!

I have, I think, briefly touched on the rather strange feeling of not wanting to be without my corset on, and that's started to make me wonder whether I might one day end up having to wear a corset full-time.  At the moment it just feels a bit odd, vaguely unsettling and I soon start to miss it.  How that will turn out might be something I shall discover sooner rather than later.

The future's bright - the future's orange

Of course, in the end I just couldn't resist temptation, especially as it was my birthday.

My new 28" orange PVC corset duly arrived, looking even better than it did in the advertising photo - being slightly lighter and brighter - and a snip at £79.  I'm not sure why they're being sold at what is virtually half-price: I would imagine they're probably being discontinued although for the moment at least the full range of sizes seems to be still available. I daresay orange PVC isn't to everyone's taste, but it certainly is to mine, but then I've become totally addicted (or maybe re-addicted) to being in a corset, and it's nice to have a selection to choose from, to suit my mood.  Matching my wardrobe is hardly an issue as I wear my corset underneath clothes, but I did happen to notice in passing that it goes very nicely with my orange "Smile if you wish you were gay" T-Shirt. 

Yay for corsets!

Adapting to life in a corset

As I mentioned in my last post, my new 28" purple corset is a much better fit on me, especially as I have over the last few years developed little boy-boobs, which it holds very neatly.  

However, not so much a downside, but more of a by-product is that I find it's restricting my stomach so much that I can only eat small amounts before feeling full.  I've read that this is a fairly well-known aspect of being in a corset, especially if you go in for any degree of tight-lacing.  In itself it's no bad thing: over-eating is something which I've certainly been guilty of in the past, along with countless other people, and the corset actually removes the ability to do it.  Small portions of food which are easily digestible are the only things I can manage, as anything more is extremely uncomfortable bordering on being slightly nauseous.

And I can certainly do with losing some weight, too.  So I reckon it's all to the good! 

Eye for a bargain

With a degree of perseverance which I have to say is a little unusual for me, I've got well and truly back into the corset habit, and thoroughly enjoying being laced up all day and every day for the last ten days.  So much so, in fact, that it's even begun to feel slightly wrong not to be in my corset for the odd brief spell when I need to take a 'maintenance' break, and I really look forward to putting it back on again.

I've in the past almost always bought and worn second-hand corsets, or "pre-loved" as the favoured term goes nowadays.  I'm lucky in being pretty much a stock size, and with the sole exception of an underbust one which really didn't suit me, I've been happy with all the ones I've worn over the years, and saved myself quite a bit of money too: good 'proper' corsets don't come cheap.

But when I spotted a sale bargain at the weekend of a brand new purple 28" PVC corset at a snip of £79, well... who could resist?  It arrived this morning, and I swapped it straightaway for the 30" black one I'd got on.  It's not quite such a bluish purple as it looked in the photo but quite stunning nonetheless, and extremely comfortable to wear, being a better fit around my bust than the 30".  It's one of the few corsets I've had which is equipped with a 'modesty panel' at the back which is coming in handy as, being new, I can't lace it anywhere as tight as I would normally for fear of distorting and thereby wrecking it.

I happened to notice they'd also got an orange version of it in the sale as well and given that it's about £100 off the normal selling price, I wonder....