well, that particular story was full of annoying comments, and the photo pretty uninspiring, but yeah, they're hot in them.

it's pretty shocking to the mainstream. Hell, women wearing corsets is pretty shocking to the mainstream!!

Thereare some ladies' articles of clothing that just plain make good sense. In the winter, I usually wear thigh highs. I got some 50 denier ones from MyTights, that look like regular men's dress socks where the public can see them when I sit. I find them much more practical than even silk long underwear beneath a suit, because the longies tend to bunch up at theabdomen. And no one need know that they have a fancy lace top. Now that I am tight lacing, I sure don't want to deal with anything extra beneath the bottom of the corset.

I did like this one bit from the article:

"But the real inspiration behind Nuffer's corset -- laced up the back with a clip-open busk at the front -- dates back to the heady days of the 1789 French Revolution.

Male followers of utopian philosopher and economist, Count Claude Henri de Saint-Simon, at the time adopted the corset precisely because it was impossible to lace up alone. Having to help each other with the ties symbolised the humanitarian helping-other ideals of the Saint-Simonien movement."

Don't know if it's true, but the I love the idea of a bunch of idealistic French dandies wearing corsets as a symbol of their beliefs...