[zerosedeluna]

Does anyone find this body type simply DIVINE?
This is how I want to look like at the end of my goal weight.






Just.. wow.

[ReeseJimi]

Yes!! I love it.. I'm morbidly obese but my shape is still hourglass, of course it doesn't look nice now like it did 120 lbs ago. I hope to get back to this one day.

[SenseAndSensibility]

I'd love to be an hourglass but its never gonna happen! I'm a pear (and overweright I'm taking on an apple shape too!) So I can look but can't safely dream

But, I'll have to learn to love my shape and learn how to dress it. That's one of my problems, I have a very limited fashion sense. I could balance my figure more if I knee how to dress it.

[Melfuchsia]

I love that shape! Funny though that these women would still be considered "big" by today's standards because they have full hips and boobs...

;-)

[faiora]

As someone with custom-made corsets... all those women are wearing them, or took one off immediately before the photo (except the second to last, which has a different shape). In the last photo I am pretty sure I can see the lines and pressure points from a corset. When you take off a corset the shape can hold for a while, especially if you wear one frequently and/or the shape change is extreme.

Interestingly, this type of hourglass shape is easiest to achieve when slightly overweight or on the high end of normal. If you get down to a lower normal weight or if you have a lot of lean mass (and not much fat) you don't have as much movable tissue. Kind of a nice thing for us weight-loss girls, because a corset can do things for us that it can't do for skinny girls.

I'm not saying an hourglass shape isn't achievable without a corset, for the record (I had an hourglass shape and when I was lean — large chest and hips/bum, with a relatively small waist and flat tummy)... but these photos are extreme examples which you shouldn't expect to achieve without a corset.

[zerosedeluna]

Originally Posted by faiora

As someone with custom-made corsets... all those women are wearing them, or took one off immediately before the photo (except the second to last, which has a different shape). In the last photo I am pretty sure I can see the lines and pressure points from a corset. When you take off a corset the shape can hold for a while, especially if you wear one frequently and/or the shape change is extreme.

Interestingly, this type of hourglass shape is easiest to achieve when slightly overweight or on the high end of normal. If you get down to a lower normal weight or if you have a lot of lean mass (and not much fat) you don't have as much movable tissue. Kind of a nice thing for us weight-loss girls, because a corset can do things for us that it can't do for skinny girls.

I'm not saying an hourglass shape isn't achievable without a corset, for the record (I had an hourglass shape and when I was lean — large chest and hips/bum, with a relatively small waist and flat tummy)... but these photos are extreme examples which you shouldn't expect to achieve without a corset.

True. One of the highest paying models in the 50s was a natural apple shape but corseting her waist to 18 inches gave her an hourglass figure! When I'm done with my weight loss journey I may buy a corset seeing if my waist isn't small enough.