not using it for waist training, just a small tummy tuck, but im not sure whether to buy a plastic one for cheap or branch out on steel boned
Uh, I feel you want a lot of experience to do this. The boning maintains the form of the corset. While you take the boning out, you can just have material, and i do not know how you possibly can be competent to comfortably exchange it with steel boning.
It depends on the kind of plastic and the thickness of it as to how easily it will snap in two. Steel would never break, though. If you want it for a one time event or only wearing occassionally, I'd get the plastic boned one but if you will wear it a lot, I'd get the steel one!! : }
My first corset was plastic boned. Then I bought a steel boned one, and I will never go back to plastic. The difference is quite noticeable. It's not that the plastic bones break, it's that they aren't as strong as steel to begin with. I wear corsets maybe ten times year, and the plastic boned one is all frumpy after three years, and the steel boned still looks as good as new after two years and that was even after it took a beating when it got improperly packed when I was moving.
