Corset Story

Corsets have been worn by both sexes for the last several hundred years. The shaping forms and construction techniques have come from a variety of backgrounds. and so have the basic types of items used. If you are trying to reproduce the figure you covet, you should have an education of the types of items available in today's marketplace.

Using Corsets to Shape the Body

The first corsets have usually produces figures with a minimal amount of curves or shapes. The breasts appear to be extremely compressed and their appearance reshaped. To develop this silhouette you must work against the regular curves and general shape of a woman's body.

Busks, Boning and Corset Construction

A corset of high quality depends on two main factors: a) the type of boning material used, and b) the ability to pull together the lacing. In order for you to have a comfortable feeling while wearing your corset you are only able to tighten the laces so much, the boning provides the remainder of the support.

Spring steel boning is nylon-coated steel that is white in color and is manufactured in a collection of widths, lengths, and thicknesses. When you are looking to select steel boning for your favorite corset style 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 are able to also find busks that open and are found on the front of corsets to allow you to put on your corset and take off your corset by yourself. The busk type fasteners were invented around 1860 and allowed construction with straight 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.