For the last several months I've been... well for lack of a better term "incapacitated" with a bad back.
I've missed a wedding, countless birthdays, trips and by some miracle made it just in time to see the Chihuly exhibit at the MFA... there are worse things in life.
A good year (or more?) ago a friend of mine asked that I reproduce a fantastic photo taken by Horst for (I believe) Vogue magazine. I love this photo, always have, it's titled "Mainbocher Corset, 1939".
So here I am, unable to sit or stand for prolonged periods when my ortho doc tells me out of the blue in this thick Italian accent that I "need to get myself a corset". It seems- this will help my back, and it has helped.
Women for generations have pinched, tucked, squeezed and sucked it in all in the name of fashion and beauty- who would've guessed that something I'd need for medical reasons would be so... vogue?
©kairndesign2011
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