Tips on lacing up my own corset

Lacing yourself can be done fairly easily with some practice, in about 2-3 minutes! But you must practice and increase your finger dexterity behind your back. You may also wish to purchase a “Lacisstant” (c)(R) ROMANTASY 2000, which acts like a second pair of hands to assist you more easily lace your corset by yourself.

I find it easiest to loosen the corset very wide, clip it in front, reach around back and then crisscross the waist pulls, and pull. I then place both pulls in my left hand (I am right handed), and with my thumb, hook it under the bottom most crossed lace set. I pull about 2-3 inches outward, then move up to the next set of crossed laces and pull outward, continuing up to the waist. At that point I crisscross the waist pulls once more and pull. Next, I commence the same process starting from the bottom up then top down to the waist, continuing several times to adjust the back gap, keeping it more or less parallel as I go, until I reach my desired reduction level, and tie a bow at the waistline. I repeat this process from the bottom up. I repeat this process several times keeping the sides of the corset parallel, as one should not close a corset in only one movement. Finally I tie a bow but do not knot it. I tuck the laces under the bottom of the hem to insure I do not have an unsightly and sloppy dragging “horse tail.”

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