I need fairly urgent advice re industrial corsets or other magic undies...

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need to be seen in front of about a hundred people in a month's time wearing a very pretty wedding dress.

I've lost 4 stones since having DS2 8 months ago, but I've changed shape into something resembling a toffee apple and need something to squash in my baby belly.

I tried Trinny and Susannah's magic pants, they were crap and had some weird ridge around the middle which emphasised the problem. I need something hardcore, and time is of the essence.

Can anyone suggest what I can get and from where?

what is your budget? basically , that is what it all boils down do.
congratulations on the weight loss. that is amazing. have you toned up at the same time? or is their a lot of excess skin?
i think, you should go to a proper underwear shop, like the rigby and peller in london and get their advice on what is available, and appropriate. be prepared to pay though...

having said that, i bough tsome lovely stuff from figleaves a few years ago. much better than the marks magic pants, i;ll try and find the link

something like this

or, if you want to change shape, i think a proper old fashioned corset type thing is more apppropriate

someone recommended this the other week on here

www.figleaves.com/uk/product.asp?product_id=MSS-2615UK

I've tried quite a few things (magic pants, all-in-ones, etc) and I have an apple belly like you describe. The best thing I've tried by far is this.

The long thingies that start below your boobs and go down to shorts wasn't much cop 1) because I had to wee through a gape and it was a complete mare 2) the top kept rolling down.

The waist cincher stayed put and is hard-core but comfy once you're used to it. Highly recommended.

Arh, great minds, CarGirl
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The link stitchtime gave was the thing I had a wee-mare in

fantastic - that waist cincher looks good, does it really work? Failing that, where do you go to get an old fashioned corset (in Manchester, ideally!)

How about this

Well it's not going to make the blubber completely disappear! But it does give you a waist where you may previously not have had one and it improves your posture so you stand straight and look smoother and slimmer

If you fancy something a bit more in your face (maybe not if it's to go under dress?) then Vollers do fabulous & effective corsets. Snobz are a bit cheaper but not quite as good.

I found this too

www.victoriawhiteland.com/the-everyday-corset-p-26.html

you need to scroll down a bit though

thank you - am investigating the figleaves and that last link there cargirl.

What size are you? We've got Vollers cinchers half price til Monday, and I could post it to you if you tell me what you need? They are quite dark though rather than white. They'd be around seventy quid.

Oooh, BitOfFun - that's really good of you! It's a white dress though, would a dark thing work underneath?

BitofFunh, do you have a link to these half price Vollers cinchers of which you speak...payday yesterday...Whitby Goth Weekend next week...any excuse!

Let me find out and get back...my email is Bitoffun 1 @ yahoo dot co dot uk if you drop me a line?

Right, have called the boss and our site (only just up) is secretdraweronline.co.uk but she isn't sure if all the corset stuff is on there yet- take a looksee and let me know?

Corsets aren't up yet, no.

it's just I know a few people on the WGW forum who might be up for a half-price Vollers - was going to post the link there - not to worry!

Well, if you get in touch I can give you a buzz with what we've got tomorrow, sizes, colours etc- I'm not in work, but I'll jot the details down over the phone (I can't remember off the top of my head) and I can let you know. I'm sure there's a way

Do you already have the very pretty wedding dress? Because you could consider wearing one with a real, fierce corset built in, as a feature. Not the wussy, plastic-boned 'corset' frocks you can get in wedding stores, but the real deal. There are lots of corsetieres (sp?) out there who make bespoke wedding dresses, and not all of them work out as expensive as you'd think. It was 4 years ago, but I was getting quotes of c.£500 up for an entirely bespoke corset wedding dress from independent makers.

Here is the dressmaker I ended up using. A detail from mine is on there somewhere but can't find it (beaded ivy leaves on bluey-green silk). Looks like she's put her prices up big time, but there are others making similar styles.

Should also point out that she, and others, will make corsets to order as underwear too. (No, I'm not on commission from her. In fact, she was a bit prickly to work with, but her dresses are to die for and she's very talented.)

Steel-boned corsets are definitely the way to go - there's quite a good selection here

Just to let you know - tried the figleaves and the next one, and strangely the one from Next (which is half the price!) is much better and does the job nicely. The other proper ones look fabulous as well, but I just don't have the time to go and try.

So hurray! Thank you for your help!