Twenty-first-century underwear can leave me sore in the areas where shoulder straps and other bits of elastic press. The corset caused the same problems as the elastic, but all over my upper body. It was worst when I had been hot and then cooled down, as the sweat left salt on my skin, which then rubbed. This could be agony. After an eighteen-hour day working hard in my corsets, my skin would be an angry red mass and the itchiness almost unbearable.
