There’s a post on CarnalNation that provides a nice overview of male corsetry. I do like the tone of the article, written by Suzanne Forbes.

Forbes notes at the start that she isn’t a huge fan of corsets for men, but then does give her opinions throughout the article about the types of corsets that she prefers for men. It’s great to see positive reactions to men wearing corsets.

I posted earlier about three parts of an anti-corset amateur video posted on YouTube.

There are additional parts to the video on YouTube now, which I’ve embedded below. The trailer sewage pipe analogy is what really does it for me…Yikes.

Frankly, I think this video series does more to help acceptance of corsetry than anything else!

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Few items of clothing display the disparity between male and female fashion like the corset. Now that women aren’t forced to wear them, they’re seen as glamorous and sexy, the province of burlesque stars and Mad Men’s voluptuous Christina Hendricks, who modelled one on a US magazine cover. But no one thinks a man wearing a corset is cool. They just think he’s fat. While the female corset has undergone a transformation from underwear to outerwear, the male equivalent stays hidden under the clothes, a source of shame, proof of an inability to keep off the lager and crisps.

Read the full article about John Galiano here.

En espanol…

Supposedly, Leo donned a corset for his costuming for the film about Howard Hughes.