Corset Background

There has been corset worship by both women and men for a long time - 100's of years. The construction techniques and the shapes they form have changed in both type and variety and so have the components and materials used. If you are trying to create the desirable shape for you, you may be a better consumer if you have an understanding of the items and materials you can select from.

Body Shaping and Corsets

The really old corsets are usually ones the a minimal amount of reshaping. Your breast shape tends to be compressed and the subsequent reshaping of the breast mass gives a minimized appearance. To attain this profile you have to compress and reshape the regular curves and general shape of a woman's body.

Boning and Busks

The design of a corset is dependent on two underlying factors to be successful: a) the properties of the boning material, and b) how much you can tighten the lacing. To feel comfortable in your corset you are only able to tighten the laces so much, the boning provides the remainder of the support.

A good boning material is spring steel coated in nylon that is usually a lighter color and is created in a group of lengths, thicknesses, and widths. When selecting the spring steel boning for the best corset for you the thickness gives way to the width in importance. You are sure when you purchase a corset with the best steel boning because it is flexible and pliable, but it is very hard to bend it.

You can sometimes find busk fasteners that open and are used in the front of corsets to enable you to get into and out of your corset without help. These did not appear until around 1860 and began with the straight busk, the more detailed spoon busk was created ten years later. All of these items can be found in our online corset store.