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Me and my hubby's favorite thing to do is rennaissance faires.. we do Scarborough and TRF and even go to other states and do theirs (Colorado and Maryland)...we have all the garb as well.. bodices.. doublets.. tights, you name it.. we have it all.

Unfortunately, we each gained so much weight (him 90 lbs and me 60 lbs just from the time that we had met) when I found out I was getting banded he started the south beach diet when my doctor put me on it and we've been doing this together. I've lost 40 and he's lost 35 so I wanted to post our before and after pics in our rennaissance garb...

In the first pic that bodice was the only one that would fit me any more and there was about a 4 inch gap in the back. His doublet didn't fit him at all anymore, so he had to resign to just wearing the belt. In the new pic taken this past saturday I could finally fit back into my black pirate bodice with greens and he could get his doublet back on too... The next faire we attend is in 5 months... I can't wait to see what I'll look like and, oh no.. I might have to buy a few new bodices. LOL.

Now if I can get a few of you ladies in a bodice!! all women look good in bodices!!

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Guest Leslie2Lose

Girl you look awesome! You don't look like you have 106 pounds to go. LOVE LOVE LOVE the dress. DH looks great too - You'll need to post in another 5 months the next progress picture!!

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You guys look great. That looks like fun.

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My waist is about 14 - 16 inches smaller than my butt, so wearing bodices is perfect for me. Sadly, I have to buy bigger pants to fit but then they are baggy on my waist. But, my butt is starting to catch up. When I started this my hips were like 61 inches and now they are like 55 (3 weeks ago). So, they are starting to shrink.. Oddly, I wear the same size bodices as most women who are about 200 or less and most people think that I'm about 215 in garb.. which is fine.. I will go ahead and let them think that if they want.

Kjeter - you should be able to see the pics now. I had to resize them for a moment, so they were gone..

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Holy cripes!!!! You two look AMAZING! CAn't wait until I can fit into a bodice. They're made for boobage.

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WOW!! You two look amazing!! Love that type of stuff!

Unfortunately, weight or no weight, bodices won't ever be an option for me unless I get implants first. There isn't enough of anything to even sort of look good in a bodice! :sad:

Have fun!!!

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WOW!! You two look amazing!! Love that type of stuff!

Unfortunately, weight or no weight, bodices won't ever be an option for me unless I get implants first. There isn't enough of anything to even sort of look good in a bodice! :frown:

Have fun!!!

That's not true.. My friend Tracy has size A cup boobs and I gave her cleavage! Trust me, with the right bodice anybody can have cleavage. Now, with that pirate bodice I'm wearing in the second picture you do have to have at least a C cup for it to look decent, but with a Moresca (a different style not shown) bodice (more accurately correct) anybody can have cleavage.

Faire is so much fun.. I love dressing up. So far the bodices have not hurt my port either. I was worried about that, especially since each one has about 20 steel rods in them and I often get bruised with certain ones...

Thanks for the compliments everyone! It's amazing what a difference 40 pounds will make! I wonder what 40 more will do. lol. Getting excited.... :sad:

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Holy cow Crystal - you look great! You can really see your weightloss - especially in your face. DH looks good too! You go girl!

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Crystal!!!!!!!!!

Woooooaaaaahhhhhhhh you are one HOT mamma!! Wooo hoooo!! You both look amazing! Keep up the great work hun!

Wow!!:sad::thumbup::frown::thumbup:

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ha ha...boobage. I love that word!

I love the RenFest! My goal is to get into the chain-link bras...none ever were made for my size (that I could afford anyway!)

(one thing I will not do, is wear a thong under a net shirt and call that a renfest outfit, even if it IS barbarian weekend.)

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