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[waltsnothereman]

Wanda had a problem. It was hardly an urgent one, and she'd merrily set it aside for weeks, but now that she'd gotten accustomed to the new and arguably improved island-that-wasn't-an-island-anymore, it was time to get down to business

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[spirited_lissie]

It wasn't the sight of a woman wearing nothing but stays that caught her attention-she'd been too used to seeing such states before-it was rather the sight that she was going out 'in such weather' that made Felicity stare.

"I'll be glad to help." She answered, almost insistantly. Her own garments consisted of a mix of modern and 'victorian': a blouse, waistcoat and skirts, but cut in a less fussy way. "Just promise we could go to someplace warmer."

[waltsnothereman]

"No complaints there," Wanda gratefully assured the girl, beckoning up the walkway with her head. "My place is this one, and I'm freezing out here."

[spirited_lissie]

She followed her inside her room.

"How have you been dressing before, if you can't lace up stays by yourself?" Not that Felicity was making fun of her or anything, stays were bothersome things if one hadn't worn them in so long-or even if one had.

[waltsnothereman]

"I'm very good at improvisation," Wanda replied vaguely, since that was really all that it boiled down to in the end. "Figured it was time to start doing this properly, though."

[spirited_lissie]

Felicity couldn't help but make a face: after two years of 'not' having to dress what her world considered proper, she needed improvisation just to make it comfortable.

"I would rather stick with improvisation." She said. "Alright, just turn around and hold the corset it, I'll lace it for you."

[waltsnothereman]

"I figure I owed it to at least try and make the sacrifice for a couple of weeks," Wanda explained with a chuckle, doing as the girl said without question. "Thanks, by the way. I'm completely in the dark when it comes to this stuff."

[spirited_lissie]

"I've been wearing similar styles all my life. Not nearly as complicated as this, but we had stays and petticoats and such things, but even the stays I wore had straps, you didn't need to hold it up like this."

As she spoke, she started loosening the laces to the corset, metholodically tightening them so she could properly tie it up.

"Let me know if it's too tight, you're actually supposed to be able to breath with it on." Well, if she expect to be able to run around, she wouldn't be able to breath properly if she was wearing a corset, but it wasn't meant to totally constrict breathing.

[waltsnothereman]

"Yeah, push-up bras were pretty much the most complicated thing we had in my day," Wanda admitted as Felicity got to work. And even those, she'd never fully mastered before her arrival on the island (God bless unstable molecules, in other words).

It wound up being tighter than she was expecting, but since her breathing felt relatively unimpeded, she had to assume that that was the way it was supposed to fit. "That doesn't feel too bad."

[spirited_lissie]

The corner of her mouth quirked up.

"Just wait till you need to get some place in a hurry, or try anything athletic, then it'll feel bad. I remember telling mother how much they itched and pinched into my back."

"Nearly done." She started finishing up adjusting the laces.

[waltsnothereman]

"Change before trying to work out, in other words, got it," Wanda said with a nod, patiently waiting as she was cinched up. "That does not sound like a lesson I'll want to be taught twice."