Corset Lowdown
Corsets have been attractive to both men and women for centuries. The types of shapes and construction techniques have been on a continual pattern of change and so have the components that are used. If you are trying to reproduce the shape you covet, you need to have an education of the types of materials used in today's corsets.
Body Shaping Corsets
The older corsets tend to be ones with the least amount of shape or curves. 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 constrain and work against the iherent shape and curves of a lady's body.
All About Busks, Lacing, and Boning
The design of a corset is dependent on two underlying factors to be successful: a) the type of boning material used, and b) the ability to pull together the lacing. In order for you to have a comfortable feeling while wearing your corset you are capable of lacing up only so much, the rest of the support is provided by the boning.
A popular boning material is nylon coated spring steel that is usually a lighter color and is constructed in a wide variety of thicknesses, lengths, and widths. When specifying the steel boning for the best corset for your body type the "thickness" is more important than the width. Spring steel, when it is of the proper thickness it is somewhat flexible but is quite difficult to bend.
You can also use busk fasteners that open and are typically used with 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 complications of the spoon busk was developed around 1870. These items can be found in either our online superstore or our online auctions.
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