Corset Report

Corsets have been idolized by both men and women for hundreds of years. Shapes and construction techniques have changed in both type and variety and so have the components and materials used. If you are trying to create the correct figure, you should have an understanding of the items and materials you can select from.

Body Shaping and Corsets

The corsets built a long time ago have usually been the ones with the least amount of reshaping. The breasts look to be constrained and their shape changed to represent a minimized silouhette. To create this silhouette you have to work against 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) the ability to tighten the lacing. In order for the corset to fit you comfortably you can only lace up and tighten so much, the boning provides the remainder of the support.

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

You can sometimes find busk fasteners that open and are often used on the front of corsets to enable you to slip into and out of your corset unassisted. The busks made their debut around 1860 and initiated with a very simple busk, the more complicated spoon busk was developed in the 1870's. Any of these corsets can be found in our corset superstore.