#corset

I have loved corsets since I was small. When I was a child, my grandmother took me to an exhibition, and they had a corset on display. I loved the flesh color, the salmon satin, the lace. ↗

— Jean Paul Gaultier

#color #corset #corsets #display #exhibition

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

— Mia Wasikowska

#corset #properly #you

We should be able to time travel," he said. "Back to an age when society was kinder to the Rubenesque woman." "Hmph." I wasn't able to say much. "I'd love that. I love softness. Love curves. The more, the better." "D'you really?" "Why wouldn't I? Think of all the words associated with a bit of extra flesh. Generous. Ample. Voluptuous. Bountiful. Beautiful, sensual words. Contrast them with their opposites. Mean. Insufficient. Meager. Miserly." I snuffled into his velvet jerkin or doublet or whatever it was and looked up at him. "You should be a professional morale booster," I told him. "You're very kind to say all this but --" "Kind?" he burst out. "No, I'm not kind! I don't feel sorry for you. I want you. ↗

— Justine Elyot

#bigger-is-better #curvy-corset-cuties #curvy-heroine #rubenesque #age

The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film. ↗

— Dinah Sheridan

#corsets #drawer #favourite #film #i

The new acts' major influences were movies and their curvy queens Brigitte Bardot and Marilyn Monroe. With their big blonde hair, ample breasts, and highly fertile hips, these bombshells inspired women everywhere to exxagerate their own voluptuousness. ↗

— Dita Von Teese

#brigitte-bardot #burlesque #curvy-corset-cuties #marilyn-monroe #p-

Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for. ↗

— Mary Jo Putney

#corsets #foot-binding #beauty

It would be nice to really shed the corsets. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#corsets #nice #really #shed #would

I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered in lace, then I still wind up wearing an ape-mask over my face. I do wonder how I get myself in these situations! ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#bit #corsets #covered #face #get

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

— Helena Bonham Carter

#completely #corsets #digestion #far #goes

You have to also provide a video for it, look a certain way and big hair... If you're a woman it's even more strange with fake fingernails and corsets and all this stuff that was big in the 80s. ↗

— Ann Wilson

#big #big hair #certain #certain way #corsets