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kaberettSo I have spent Several Years being utterly perplexed at the idea that it's impossible to put a corset on without help from a second person.
It has literally only just occurred to me that my complete bafflement on the topic might be because my shoulders are hypermobile.
Is-- is that it? Is that why there's this bizarre incomprehensible cultural meme that the only way you can possibly put a corset on solo is with the aid of a coathanger and a doorknob? ENLIGHTEN ME, INTERNET.
It has literally only just occurred to me that my complete bafflement on the topic might be because my shoulders are hypermobile.
Is-- is that it? Is that why there's this bizarre incomprehensible cultural meme that the only way you can possibly put a corset on solo is with the aid of a coathanger and a doorknob? ENLIGHTEN ME, INTERNET.
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Date: 2016-02-17 04:17 pm (UTC)Getting confused/losing track I can very much understand (I think I'm helped here by the amount of braiding my own hair and horses' hair I've done over the years) but I don't see that the well-meaning supportive advice that made 0 sense whatsoever to me would help with that.
And, to be clear, I think it's completely reasonable to need or want other people to help -- I've just spent several years quietly politely perplexed at the very vocal parts of the internet I'd seen suggesting that doing it solo was just straight-up across-the-board impossible or at best very unusual, which didn't tally at all with my experiences -- and as I say I've only just realised this might be because I've got a substantially larger range of motion even in my "good" shoulder than is normal!