Sentence examples for her corsets from inspiring English sources

Standing on the cusp of postwar Britain, Joyce views both her mother and her aunt with affectionate contempt: Lil in her shapeless print dresses, proficient at dealing with children and geese but afraid of the telephone; Vera in her corsets and gloves, prizing an intellectual fearlessness that proves of little use when it comes to preserving her nylons or the attentions of her husband.

You can be the lady who lunches in cardigans and tweeds; the astral voyager, who accentuates her streamlined shape with a sharp-shouldered jacket and leggings; the soign?tomboy, shrugging a boyfriend blazer and easy-going track pants over her leather armor; or the modern Cyndi Lauper, dressing up her corsets with crinolines and lace.

To be let out of her corset?

Once, she said, Mr. Yokoyama played in her corset and a pair of fishnet stockings.

In chapter one, for instance, we meet a housewife, Ruth Snyder, and her corset salesman lover, Judd Gray.

The 1907 catalogue entry attributed the organ's deformity to the deceased's lacing her corset too tightly.

She's a rebel who rips her corset to compete better with the boys in an archery competition.

They wore Cat in the Hat striped scarves and those salmony slips your great-grandma wore over her corset.

Knowing that strangers are making up stories about her sexual escapades, she sews a red-satin "A" on her corset and embraces a newly brazen persona.

Men might find some of this stuff interesting, too: I was fascinated, for instance, when Amanda Seyfried, shifting around, began to discuss the mechanics of her corset.

Indeed one friend of mine, who earns a living impersonating the Victorian cook Mrs Beeton, tells me that wearing her corset helps her lift heavy saucepans.