Dita Von Teese Quotes

It was so kind of you to mention that I don't wear stays. What's the point? If you squeeze it in at one point, it only comes out at the other.

I am used to wearing corsets. Even when I was first starting out it was either Shakespeare or Chekov. Everything that I was doing involved corsets. I guess I am just not destined to breathe that deeply.

I have never known the time when I did not wear stays. My stays are part of me.

I spend long days wearing a corset - but no pain, no gain.

With corsets, it's interesting when you put them on, realizing that's what women actually wore. They're just so constricting.

When you're wearing a corset for a long period of time, things that were important to you hours before are no longer important, because doing them exhausts you.

I wanted to have no ribs. I wore what was called a waist-nipper in those days. My mother made it. It's a piece of rubber band I wore around to hold my rib cage in. I don't know why I always loved that. I guess I was a glutton for punishment. I think I was born one of those people who loved swords and fought in armor.

Corsets do look so pretty. Once I watched it, I was like, "Well, they do look nicer than the way I do normally," but they're really uncomfortable. You start to realize why women would pass out. We had the real ones, and they were just awful. At one point, I was like, "I think that's my spleen that this is digging into." So, if I had a nightgown, that was always really comfy. I had a few coats that I thought were pretty cool.

Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes.

So wearing a corset certainly changes your state of mind.

I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle - a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand up on its own - and I remember her coming home from fancy parties and racing upstairs to extricate herself from its cruel iron grip.

I love a good corset.

We've got 400,000 girls with beach-y blonde hair, the same nose, gigantic lips, implants in their cheeks, and little Chicklets for teeth. Are they really prettier?

On corsets: I said, You have got to be kidding. I am an ape and yet I am still expected to squeeze myself into one of those damn things.

I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.

I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!

Shapewear is the canvas and the clothes are the art.

I think it is rather 'unsexy' to go under the knife and modify your appearance.

My most recent purchase was a black lace corset.

Although a lot of pain for a little screen time; Shaving legs, waxing eyebrows, high heels, trying to put on a bra, losing weight because women's clothes are SO revealing - Ladies you have my respect.

It's possible that you have been told a time or 10 that you don't appreciate how tough your elders had it. It's true that, if you had been coming of age back in, say, 1960, you would probably be feeling more restricted, if only because you were doomed to spend your days in a skirt, nylon stockings and girdle.

I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind.

With a corset on, you can't breathe properly.

Today an enterprising 16 year old is getting his ears pierced. At 16 George Washington was exploring the West.

You go to the gym to make sure you have the stamina to breathe in the corsets.