Corset History

There has been an attraction to corsets by both sexes for the last several hundred years. The shaping forms and construction techniques have been changing similar to the changes in materials used. In order to develop the best shape for you, you should have an education of the types of items available in today's marketplace.

Shaping the Body with Corsets

The older corsets tend to be ones with a minimal amount of curves or shapes. The breasts appear to be in compression and their appearance changed to look minimized. To create this profile you have to constrain and work against the typical shape and inherent curves of woman's body.

Corsets: Lacing, Boning and Busks

Any top quality corset design relys on two fundatmental factors: a) strength of boning used, and b) tightness of lacing. For the sake of comfort you are capable of lacing up only so much, you should rely on the boning material to provide the rest of the structural 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 width gives way to the thickness in what is most important. When the right spring steel is used it is pliable but it is really hard to bend.

Busk fasteners are also used, they open and are used for 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 started with the simplest busk, the modern spoon busk was developed approximately ten years later. These corsets call all be found in our online corset superstore.