Corset Report

Corsets have been idolized by both women and men for a long time - 100's of years. The types of shapes and construction techniques have changed over time. and so have the types of materials used. In order to reproduce the correct shapes, you should have an understanding of the items and materials you can select from.

Ultimate Body Shaping With Corsets

The corsets built a long time ago have usually been the ones with minimal amounts of reshaping. The breast flesh appears to be significantly pressed down 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.

Boning, Busks and Other Corset Techniques

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 fine choice in boning is the use of spring steel cased in nylon that is usually light in color and is delivered in a variety of thicknesses, widths and lengths. When looking for a particular type of spring steel for your corset the "thickness" is more important than the width. Spring steel, when it is of the proper thickness it is really flexible but it is almost impossible to bend.

Busk fasteners are also used, they open and are located on the front of corsets to allow you the freedom to get into your corset without requesting help from anyone. 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.