Longer post w/pics later tonight cos I'm about to go run errands, but in the
late victorian/edwardian era there are men's corsets--you might want to base
the one you make on them, at least in terms of design & construction, if not
shape. (They were generally marketed towards older military men, who wanted
to look sharp in their uniforms despite a saggy middle!)
It sounds like metal boning would fit the bill, but so would plastic. There
are several types of plastic ties available at a low cost at Home Depot &
Lowes, and one of them is thin & narrow--not at all bulky. You have to use
quite a lot more, but the end result is incredibly comfortable (almost like
a corded corset). The drawback is that plastic boning does a much better job
of molding itself to the body, which in this case is not at all the goal!
Also, there's no reason that you can't combine the two. A combination of
steel boning and whalebone is very common in corsets of the era.
-E House
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