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Actually, a friend is making a male corset for me. If I like it, I'll post pics later.
Sadly, I cannot help you with your issue. crying

just try retying it tighter, or the style of it might not be the right style or shape for your body type...

Just to say this now, that's not a bustier. While I agree that corsets and bustiers are often confused and different, your example isn't correct.

A corset either gives the hourglass figure on a woman or push the hips and breast down so their are straight up and down, so it is often very tightfitting and stiff. The purpose of both styles of corsets are so the person appears thinner.

The purpose of a bustier is to make the bust (AKA breast) look larger, hence the name. Often times traditional bustiers are corseted for extra support, but not always. There are bustiers from now that appear more like a bra.

Traditionally, bustiers and corsets are both undergarments.

What you gave as an example is simply a top in a corseted fashion. That does not make it a corset, just that it is similar.

To tell the basic difference to see I am telling the truth can be found at these links:
Bustiers
Corsets
Yes, it's an online dictionary.

Also, I wouldn't get to used to those corsets. There was a case in the recent past where a woman wore corsets for much of her life so she could appear thinner in the waist. After years of wearing corsets, including sleeping in them (wierd), she became adapted to it. However, this soon became a problem. She becames so used to these corsets where she'd only take them off for minutes to change them (once a week, I believe), that her spine became unable to support her body without the help of a corset. If she ever took it off again, her spine would would twist and than break under the pressure (doesn't matter what angle she is at).

There are very similar cases like that in an African tribe that have been common for centuries. I won't get into that, though, because it is off subject.

As for your problems with the corset, it could be fitted wrong (simply buying one from a store with right size doesn't guarantee a correct fitting), you could be moving too much, or both. In traditional corsets, the women couldn't move because of the stiffness which could over-exhaust them when they tried. Considering most corsets now aren't made with anywhere near the same quality, it's not hard to imagine it won't stay still when you move or slouch when sitting.


Personally, I do like corsets, I just don't like to wear them all that often. My favorite ones are the kind that don't cover the bust at all.

Obviously, ignorance like confusing a bustier and a corset does bug me. You, like many, just seem to be misinformed. At least you knew that something with ribbon on it like a corset isn't one at all.

eek yeah yucky.... where are her organs situated in that body anyways??? sad

thats seriously gross it makes me want to cry.... [but not seriusly becuase i don't cry. so while i htink of that poor womans insides i will die a lillte more than usual inside]

Yeah, from the appearance, the picture looks like just a top and a ribbon.

Thank you with the name! 3nodding I always end up forgetting it.

The case I was just talking about I have seen on Guinness World Records (the show when it was on years ago) as well as Ripley's Believe It or Not. It may be in the record book, but I am unsure.

The case with necks where the situation is very similar in Africa is in the Guinness World Book of Records 2000, I know that for sure. They just put rings on the necks of newborn females. These women grow up with them and become so dependent on this added support that, if taken away, their heads will fall and the spinal cord will break.

Ewwww, that picture is sooooo gross. *shivers* Part of me thinks that picture may be fake, but, still, with even the thought of it being to that much of an extreme as a possibility.

Well, it was nice talking to you and clarifying some things. I'm very glad you didn't BS the conversation like some people tend to do.

I only have four.