Tight Lacing Quotes

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

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

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

Corsets are always hard to wear.

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.

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

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

Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.

I love a good corset.

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.

She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the effect of causing her to faint. Mom called it the vapors and said it was a sign of her high breeding and delicate nature. I thought it was a sign that the corset made it hard to breathe.

Corsetry is a body modification.

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.

Traditionally, skaters tend to tie their skates very tightly. I tend to just tie my foot down, then in the ankle area, I tend to keep it loose. It gives me better mobility. But also, you're relying on your own strength as opposed to resting on the boot.

My name is synonymous with corsets and ringlets.

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.

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.

It's hard to act in a corset. Your breath gets cut off. You're squashed.