Discovering Zona and the surprisingly large number of other girdle and corset-related sites on the Net was, for me, a little like finally finding the Lost Dutchman mine.
Here at last were men and women brave enough to challenge the traditional concept, the canned rhetoric, that: "girdles ain't sexy" to point out that, au contraire, for some folks they are- very much so! These "believers" realize that an attractive, eye-catching figure can often be made even more desirable- in fact "tongue-hanging-out" desirable- when snugged in, shaped and controlled by the spandex and gleaming satin-lastex panels of a well-fitted garment.
What makes a person a "girdle aficionado" anyway? There are probably dozens of explanations. In my own case, surprisingly, I can actually date it to a particular afternoon when I was about twelve (which was a very, v-e-r-y long time ago).. Here's what occurred:
It was a rainy day and I was poking through a pile of old magazines in our attic when I came across an illustrated ad for a foundation garment which must have been the original ancestor… the "great-grandma"… of the Playtex. (Bear in mind that the "Living Girdle" was still about fifteen years in the offing.) The ad and accompanying sketch described a panty all-in-one of heavy rubber with cone-shaped cups, molded-garters and shoulder straps and the zillions of tiny vent holes that would later characterize the Playtex.
I was intrigued! I read and re-read that ad to make sure I wasn't misinterpreting the description of such an "ultimately exciting" garment. I had seen newspaper, magazine and catalogue ads for various types of "control" garments …in those days usually open-bottom "garter" girdles, corsets or corselets… but this rubber beauty…
Oh, man!
Fascinating!
Something like this, perhaps?
At an age when my testerone was beginning to bubble, I spent hours studying the sketch and day-dreaming about how it would probably feel to hug or dance with a girl wearing one of those snug, smooth, shiny, slippery, rubber-smelling garments under her blouse and skirt. Sadly, the opportunity to find out never presented itself…. seventh-grade girls, it turned out, weren't big on rubber, panty all-in-one foundation garments… but I was hopelessly hooked.
Years passed. I became an avid Sunday New York Times Magazine browser, a closet Sears catalogue clipper and- when I married- an enthusiastic mail-order girdle shopper. I bought my wife a couple of one-piece garments from latex specialty dealers but found the paper-thin material fragile, "non-controlling" and not as erotic as hoped. I never saw that ad again, never heard anyone mention such a "heavy rubber" garment, never saw anything resembling it in a store and as time went by the one-piece of my boyhood was forgotten. When the improved, lined, heavy latex panty-style "Living Girdle" finally hit the scene years later, however, it brought am immediate deja vu and a smile: finally one could purchase at least the lower half of my "dream rubber one-piece"!
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Posted September 1, 1997