Corset Background

Corsets have been idolized by both women and men for a long time - 100's of years. The various shapes and construction methods 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 an understanding of the variety of items used in today's corsets.

Body Shaping and Corsets

The corsets built a long time ago have usually been the ones with the least amount of curves. Your breast shape tends to be compressed and their shape changed to represent a minimized silouhette. To create this silhouette you have to work against the curves and shape of of a woman's body.

Busks, Boning and Corset Construction

The design of a corset is dependent on two underlying factors to be successful: a) the properties of the boning material, and b) the amount of tightening allowed by the lacing design. If you want to feel comfortable while in your corset you are able to lace and tighten up to a point, you should rely on the boning for providing the rest of the support.

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 selecting the spring steel boning for your choice in corsets the thickness is what should be checked out. When the proper thickness of steel boning is selected it is quite flexible and it is extremely hard to bend.

You can use busks that open and are sometimes used on the front of corsets to allow you to slide into and out of your corset without another person's help. The first time busks were used was near 1860 and launched with simple busks, today's spoon busk was created more than a decade later. All of these corsets can be found in either our corset superstore or our corset auctions.