Corset Lowdown

Corsets have been idolized by both women and men for quite some time going back several centuries. The shaping forms and construction techniques have changed due to new technology similar to the changes in materials used. For you to develop the correct shape for you, you need to have an education of the materials and items you can choose from.

Corsets for Shaping the Body

The ancient corsets are usually those with the least amount of curves. Your breast shape tends to be greatly flattened and provide the appearance of a minimized breast profile. To create this shape you must work against the natural shape and curves of a woman's body.

Busks and Boning

Any top quality corset design relys on two fundatmental factors: a) the type of material used in the boning, and b) the amount of tightening allowed by the lacing design. For the sake of comfort you can only lace so tightly, it is therefore more practical to use the proper quality of "bone".

A good boning material is spring steel coated in nylon that provides a light color base and is built in a wide variety of lengths, widths, and thicknesses. When you are deciding on the type of steel boning for the corset best suited to you the width is secondary to the thickness. When the correct thickness of spring steel is used it is flexible but it is very hard to bend.

You can construct a corset with busks that open and are usually 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 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.