Corset Background

There has been an attraction to corsets by both sexes for a long time - 100's of years. The construction techniques and the shapes they form have been upgraded with newer technology and so have the components and materials used. If you are trying to create the figure you covet, you need to have an understanding of the materials available to you on today’s market.

Corsets for Shaping the Body

The first corsets have usually produces figures with a minimal amount of curves. Your breast shape looks to be contained and the subsequent reshaping of the breast mass gives a minimized appearance. To attain this profile you have to contain the general shape and curves of a female's body.

Corsets: Lacing, Boning and Busks

A successful corset design is related to two components: a) the type and strength of boning used, and b) how much you can tighten the lacing. To feel comfortable in your corset you should only tighten and lace up so much, you can rely on the boning material to deliver the remainder of the support.

A useful boning material is nylon cased spring steel that is white in color and comes in different widths, thickness and length. When choosing a spring steel for your corset the thickness is of primary importance. When the right spring steel is used it is pliable but it is really hard to bend.

You are able to also find busks that open and are mainly used on the front of corsets to enable you to put on and take off your corset without calling someone in for help. The busks made their debut around 1860 and allowed construction with straight busks, the modern spoon busk was developed approximately ten years later. These corsets call all be found in our online corset superstore.