Corset Background

Corsets have been worn by both sexes for the last several hundred years. The shaping forms and construction techniques have changed due to new technology similar to the changes in materials used. If you are trying to create the figure you covet, you should have an education of the assortment of materials and items you can choose from.

Shaping the Body with Corsets

The first corsets have usually produces figures with a minimal amount of curves or shapes. Your breast shape appears to be in compression and their appearance changed to look minimized. To create this profile you have to contain the general shape and curves of a female's body.

Corsets: Lacing, Boning and Busks

Success depends on two things: a) strength of boning used, and b) tightness of lacing. For the sake of comfort you should only tighten and lace up so much, you can rely on the boning material to deliver the remainder of the support.

One of the most popular types of boning is steel boning covered in nylon that is usually light in color and is made in an assortment of widths, lengths, and thicknesses. When you select the spring steel for the best looking corset for your shape the thickness, and not the width, should be of primary importance. You can tell when you have selected the proper spring steel boning because it is really flexible but it is almost impossible to bend.

There are also busks which open and are used in the front of corsets to enable you to put on your corset without assistance. The earliest busks were invented around 1860 and began with the inclusion of a simple busk, the more complicated spoon busk was developed a few years later. Any of these corsets can be found in our corset superstore.