RetroXotique

by Mike

Part 1

The idea for this story came to me when pictures of Emma Bunton ‘Baby Spice’ were splashed over a number of papers on holiday with her mother, showing Emma with a definite flabby belly. After this for some months I noticed that she always wore clothes to hide her waist and she did appear in a proper light blue ‘serious’ corset as mentioned in the story, when the rest of the Spice Girls were wearing flimsy lingerie. 

The Space Girls were the teenage pop sensation of the past year, they had dominated the teen pop market on all fronts, with 3 number one singles & a number one album, there pictures had been splashed over every magazine & paper and they had appeared on every sort of TV program from children’s TV to the Lottery. Weird Space, Cinnamon Space, Energetic Space, Snooty Space & Toddler Space were the idols of every teenybopper & teenage girl in the country. 

The Space Girls management & publicity team were holding a crisis meeting just prior to the Space Girls returning from there summer break. The manager Micky Least was berating his publicity team, "How could you let a picture like this get into the papers" and threw a paper across the table. The paper the Daily Sludge had a full page picture of Toddler Space on a beach with a headline of "Podgy Space", Toddler Space was shown wearing a bikini with a definite pot belly hanging over it!. The head of publicity tried to brush it away saying that they had covered the story saying it was just a little baby fat. "Baby Fat !" shrieked Micky Least

"She maybe called Toddler Space but she is over twenty years old for christsake !". The room silenced while they waited for Micky to calm down. After a while his assistant, Lenny Long put the picture into perspective, "We always known we had a problem with Toddler, her weight balloons up and down like a yoyo, look at that lingerie shoot we did last month, all the other girls were wearing skimpy bra’s and panties & the only way we could make Toddler look reasonable was to put her into that pale blue boned corset, and we had to lace that tighter than she liked".

Micky jumped up again and shouted "I don’t care what she likes, we have an image to preserve here, the next public appearance is in 4 weeks and Toddler has got to come out looking 100% to kill this story as fast as possible, now what’s the solution gentlemen" and he sat down scanning the table looking for suggestions. The head of publicity ventured "Well we could put her on a strict diet". "A diet" screamed Micky "She has been on more strict diets than I’ve got cars, the last one she was actually photographed in MacDonalds an hour after she started it". The room became quiet again. Eventually Jimmy Walker the endorsement manager spoke up "I know this is a bit off the wall, but you know I have been trying to arrange an endorsement with Saul Jeans, and we have been looking for the right design to fit the image of the Space Girls well one of there designers came up with this " and he pulled a picture out of his folder and passed it over to Micky.

The picture showed a girl in a normal pair of skin-tight jeans below the waist but above the waist the jeans extended up to just below the breasts with no zip at the front but a rear view showed a continuous zip from the base of the spine right up the back.

 "How is this going to help us" asked Micky. 

"Well" said Jimmy the endorsement manager "I mentioned our problems with Toddler Space and Julian the designer said that it would be no problem to make her jeans out of extra thick denim and to also build a corset into it, in that way her legs thighs, bottom and waist would be totally controlled by the jeans". 

Micky sat back and thought for a moment and eventually said 

"Sounds feasible how are you going to play it ? ", 

Jimmy pulled out a sheet 

"Well we could have all 5 of them wearing the new jeans on there next TV slot, with each wearing a different coloured blouse or shirt to break it up and from then on we could have at least two of them wearing the jeans with of course Toddler Space always wearing them until she lost enough weight to go back to normal designs". 

They discussed for a period and decided that they had no option, the Space girls had a lot of promo & publicity appearances scheduled in the next few months & there was no way they could let this ‘Podgy Space’ story get out of hand. Jimmy was told set the idea in motion. 

Two weeks later Jimmy met up with designers from Saul jeans and first saw the normal designs which the Saul marketing men had dubbed ‘Hi Tops’ to be worn by the rest of the Space girls, which were normal thickness jeans & relied on their tightness to hold them up above the waist, he then saw the special design for Toddler Space, which on visual inspection looked very similar to the normal jeans, he then picked them up by the legs and was surprised by stiffness & thickness of the material, he moved up to the waist of the jeans & his fingers met stiff boning under the material, Jimmy turned the jeans over and opened the long zip to expose the lacing of a Victorian corset which was sewn into the inside of the jeans. Jimmy was a bit worried and said 

"Look guys , this boning wont show will it, if the papers find out they will have a field day". 

The designers assured him that they would not, and if required they could make sure that the vertical seams lined up with bones so that they would not be noticeable from the outside. The next step they said was to get Toddler Space’s exact dimensions and also the dimensions that they would like her to be under the corset. The designers reckoned that the could get away with a couple of inches on the thighs, two to four inches on the bottom & four to six inches maximum on the waist, Jimmy promised to get right on to it. 

When Jimmy returned to the Space Girl office he found he had a problem, Toddler Space who was still on holiday in the West Indies denied that she had put on weight & when asked for her current vital statistics, she had shouted 

"The same as they have always been " 

and slammed the phone down. Jimmy consulted with bands nominal leader Cinnamon Space to find out the other girls feelings. Cinnamon said "Were sick of Toddler, if she does not watch it, she will ruin it for all of us, if she says that she is the same size as she has always been , then so be it. Get the jeans made two to four inches down at the waist for all of us, and use the dimensions that Toddler claims in the publicity blurb as her base, she has never been within 2 inches of them, even when she was at her slimmest". Jimmy was not sure, but Micky said with a smile that if all the other Space girls wanted it that way, that was the way it should be. 

Jimmy passed on the information to the Saul Jean designers who said that the finished ‘Hi Top’ jeans would be ready in a week, which left a week before the Space Girls next public appearance which was a photo shoot on the Friday to launch the ‘Hi Top’ jeans followed by TV show on the Saturday. The jeans arrived and the girls came in to try them on, except for Toddler Space who had not arrived back from the West Indies. The girls tried them on and found that the while the ‘Hi Top’ jeans fitted tightly & were difficult to zip up requiring them to breathe in deeply, they were no worse to zip up than some of their formal tight dresses. As the week went on Jimmy was getting worried, Toddler Space had still not arrived back. 

The photo shoot was scheduled for Friday morning and Toddler Space flew in on Thursday night and turned up at the office early on Friday morning, the rest of the Space Girls were there waiting as well. They examined her closely and turned to each other and nodded. Toddler Space had definitely piled on the pounds around her face, waist, bottom and thighs. Jimmy showed her the new jeans and she went wild, Cinnamon & Weird Space jumped up and grabbed her and marched her into a side office, slamming the door after them. There was some shouting and screaming, but after a while Toddler came out and said she would wear the jeans. Jimmy said,  "Right lets get on with it we haven’t got much time" and turning to Micky he whispered "How did they get her to do it", "Simple" said Micky "The other girls have had enough of Toddler and it is in their contracts that if other girls and I agree that one of them should be forced to leave the band, there is nothing she can do about it.".  Two Saul Jeans female fitters lead Toddler into a dressing room and Cinnamon Space followed her to put on her jeans outfit, they undressed Toddler down to just her panties and then started with a fully fitted black longline bra, which they had trouble fastening even on the widest row of the three sets of hooks, they really had to use all her strength to get the hooks to meet. When the longline bra was tightly fastened over its full length, it squeezed Toddler’s her breasts up and out and rolled her upper body fat down towards her waist. Toddler was initially so pleased with her new cleavage that she did not mind the tightness of the bra. They then pulled the jeans over Toddler feet & ankles and to started to pull the jeans up her legs and soon started to have problems before the legs of the jeans were halfway up her thighs. Toddler Space jumped up with the jeans around her knees and screamed

"That’s enough, these jeans are much to tight & I am not going to wear them"

 Cinnamon who was pulling on her own jeans turned round quickly and said 

"Listen Toddler, we meant what we said & it’s your own fault, if you had told Jimmy your true measurements the jeans would not half as tight, as it is we have a photo shoot today and a TV appearance tomorrow & and we are all going to be wearing these jeans, this endorsement deal is worth a lot of money & if the jeans take off will be worth even more, so you are going to get those jeans on , even if it takes all day !". 

Toddler listened to this tirade with pouting lips and at the end of it she was near to tears. She started to say something else but was stopped by another Cinnamon tirade, 

"I want no more tears, we are professionals, you will come out of this dressing room with the jeans on. or don’t bother coming out at all". 

With this Cinnamon walked out slamming the door behind her.