Corset Lowdown

Corset worship has been a part of life for both women and men for quite some time going back several centuries. Shapes and construction techniques have come from a variety of backgrounds. and so have the components and materials used. If you are trying to create the figure you covet, you should have knowledge of the variety of items used in today's corsets.

Corsets and Body Shaping

The older corsets tend to be ones with a minimal amount of curves. Your breast shape looks to be contained and their shape changed to represent a minimized silouhette. To create this silhouette you have to reshape the general curves and shape of a female's profile.

Corsets: Lacing, Boning and Busks

Any top quality corset design relys on two fundatmental factors: a) the type of material used in the boning, and b) how much you can tighten the lacing. To feel comfortable in your corset you should only tighten and lace up so much, it is therefore more practical to use the proper quality of "bone".

A popular boning material is nylon coated spring steel that is usually a lighter color and is created in a group of lengths, thicknesses, and widths. 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.

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 began with straight busks, the elaborate and intricate spoon busk was invented a decade later. Both of these items can be found in our corset superstore.