Corset Chronicle

There has always been a following for corsets by both sexes for the last several hundred years. The shaping forms and construction techniques have been upgraded with newer technology similar to the modernization in the materials and items used. For you to develop the shape you desire, you need to have knowledge of the items available to you today.

Corsets for Shaping the Body

The ancient corsets are typically the ones with a moderate amount of curves or reshaping. The breast flesh tends to be in compression and their appearance changed to look minimized. To create this profile you have to contain and fight the usual shape and typical curves of a woman's body.

Corsets: Lacing, Boning and Busks

Any top quality corset design relys on two fundatmental factors: a) strength of boning used, and b) tightness of lacing. For the sake of comfort you can only lace so tightly, the rest of the support is delivered by the function of the boning.

One of the most popular types of boning is steel boning covered in nylon that is usually light in color and is made in an assortment of widths, lengths, and thicknesses. When you select the spring steel for the best looking corset for your shape the width gives way to the thickness in what is most important. Spring steel, when it is of the proper thickness it is somewhat flexible but is quite difficult to bend.

Busk fasteners are also used, they open and are located on the front of corsets to allow you to put your corset on and off without help. The busks first appeared in the 1860's and started with the simplest busk, the spoon busk appeared shortly afterward in about 1870. Both items can be found in our online shop.