Corsets

How to Add Texture to Dress Fabric

Texture can help make a dress or fabric go from drab to fab. Adding texture can come in the form of adding or subtracting color or creating visual depth, like an artist coating a blank canvas with paint. When adding texture to fabric, remember...

How to Add a Corset to a Dress

When the zipper on the back of your dress breaks, it’s not the end of the world. With basic sewing skills, you can save the gown from the trash and transform it into one that has a chic corset. Replacing a zipper with a corset back is also a...

Shirts That Lace Up Like Corsets

A corset is a simple yet elegant garment that wraps around the bodice, attaching with hooks or lace. The middle of the front section comes down in a V-shape, with the sides sitting higher. Corsets can also have loads of style. Fancy corsets...

Can a Large Busted Girl Wear a Corset Dress?

Corset dresses may bring to mind a fashion era of long ago, but you don’t need a magical time machine to enjoy this staple of the fashion world. Corsets pull the body in, smoothing lumps and bumps and creating a super sexy hourglass figure...

What Is Side Boning?

A fitted garment should follow the contours of your body. Soft, drapey seams are fine for casual, loose-fitting clothes, but to really outline your curves, a boned garment does the trick. Boning gives a garment shape and support. It helps keep...

How to Change a Zip-Up Dress to a Lace-Up Dress

Before the zipper became the closure of choice for modern dresses and other clothing, laces reigned supreme. Fashionistas from days past wore lace-up closures on bodices, corsets and even undergarment chemises and skirts. Unlike zippers, laces can...

The Best Open Corsets

If you're looking for a sexy alternative to those not-so-hot modern control garments, a corset will let you look your best in or out of your clothes. Open or "underbust" corsets come to just below your breasts, leaving your bust bare....

The Best Beginner Corset

No corset is going to be exactly comfy when you're not used to boning and laces. Beginner corsets are easier to wear, whether you're heading to the renaissance fair or planning to wear a corset at your wedding. A good quality beginner corset...

Should I Wear a Bone-in Corset?

If the last time you spent more than two consecutive seconds thinking about bone-in corsets was when you saw Scarlett O'Hara being strapped into one, you'll be surprised to learn that corsets of all makes and models are still alive and kicking...

What Do Corsets Look Good With?

One way to accentuate a coke-bottle figure -- whether you have one or not -- is to strap on a corset. Though there was a time when a corset was strictly underwear, now the garment can be worn on top for all eyes to see, thanks to fashion designers...

Will a Corset Make You Look Two Sizes Smaller?

A corset can do a lot of things: it can make you look sexy with a fabulously hourglass-like shape. It can make you look stylish and trendy, particularly when paired with an uber fab pair of stiletto knee-high boots and dark wash skinny jeans....

Styles of Underbust Corsets

Well-dressed divas throughout the ages have turned to the corset for their foundation garment fashions, but only a modern style maven can turn this historical costume piece into opulent outerwear. Although the classic corset covers a girl's bust,...

Do Corsets Shrink Your Waist?

If you're aching for an hourglass shape, a corset may be just the undergarment you're looking for. From classy Victorian ladies to classic movie stars, women have used the corset to shape their bodies for centuries. If worn daily with the goal of...

How to Take Off a Corset

The first rule of wearing a corset is not to trip and fall because you are looking down at your own awesome cleavage. The second rule is to have an exit strategy. Don't follow the natural impulse to just unhook it at the front. It won't work, and...

How to Lace a Corset by Yourself

When you don't have a lady-in-waiting there to help you lace up your corset, you'll just have to do it yourself. Lacing a corset by yourself is not that hard -- many women who wear corsets learn to lace themselves. Check yourself out in the mirror...

How to Put Boning in a Corset

Getting into garb from another era doesn't have to be a fashion don't, especially for the girl who makes her own garments. A well-crafted corset was the structural foundation for a woman's fashions in its heyday, and today can create a striking...

What Bottom to Wear With a Corset

Corsets are having a new heyday as a favorite style of top for many bold fashionistas. Their elegance and elaborate structure flatter the body, while accentuating the bust and adding a sexy indentation to the waist. However, if you've invested in...

What Is a Skirt-Supporting Corset?

While modern girls may get away with a push-up bra, the women who came before us needed something to hold up all those skirts and petticoats. Skirt-supporting corsets, first patented in the 1860s, helped the wearer to bear some of this weighty...

How to Lace a Corset Back Dress

No need for a time machine to get the extravagant, antique look of a corset into your wardrobe! There's also no need for a fainting couch. Corset back dresses can give you the lavish styles of yesterday while providing today's clothing comfort....

Proper Fit of a Corset

While corsets may look like torture devices, a properly fitting corset supports your back and bust without causing significant discomfort. Corset styles vary, including historical reproductions, underbust corsets and overbust corsets, but the...

How to Breathe in a Corset

Perhaps you're pretending to audition for "Playboy" magazine's "Miss March" position, or maybe you're dressing up for a Civil War reenactment. Either way, wearing a corset is probably on the docket, and you're a little apprehensive of how to...

How to Lace a Corset Dress

When you look at the tight lacing on the back of a corset dress, it looks like it takes a lot of time, effort and know how to lace up. But, it's actually quite simple if you know what you're doing. A corset style dress is slenderizing and looks...

History of the Corset as an Undergarment

Raise your hand if the idea of spending your waking hours trussed up like a side of beef on a barbeque spit sounds appealing. Thought so. But that's exactly what women were subjected to over hundreds of years when some hair-brained arbiter of...

How to Embellish Corsets

A corset can create a chic, structured look for any stylista. This garment can cinch a girl's waist, follow her feminine curves and even give her look a touch of antique romance. Looking to add a little more of your own fashion tastes to your...

How to Put a Lingerie Hook & Eye on a Corset

The sleek, sexy look of a corset can make for a fun fashion statement, but sometimes it can also be a hassle to wear. While the complicated lacing patterns at the back of a corset are beautiful, they are difficult to assemble alone and generally...

How to Put on a Hook & Eye Corset

Putting on a corset is not as complex or as difficult as it might seem. Although the first corsets were solid in the front and laced in the back, most corsets today have hook and eye closures on the front, with the back being laced up like a...

How to Wear a Corset With a Bra

So you've found a bangin' corset, but it doesn't hold up the ladies quite as much as it should. Don't despair -- your boned beauty isn't going the way of six-month-old mascara. You can keep it around and get the support you need by slipping a bra...

How to Wear a Black Corset

A black corset may be something you think you should only wear for your -- super lucky, mind you -- partner in the bedroom, but it's actually more versatile than that. Sure, there's nothing you can really even layer it with to make it...

How to Button a Corset

Did you ever notice how men's buttons are on the opposite side from women's buttons? Interesting fashion theory: women's buttons are considered the "wrong" side because women used to have attendants to button their clothes for them, specifically,...

What Happens When You Wear a Corset?

Remember when Keira Knightley passed out from a too-tight corset in "Pirates of the Caribbean?" Up until the mid-20th century, corsets were a regular part of a lady's wardrobe, and lacing them too tight often caused fainting. Corsets have come a...

When to Wear a Corset

If you've ever fallen in love with the romance and beauty of period movies, you've probably coveted the gorgeous (if not potentially uncomfortable) look of wearing a corset. After all, slim waist, flat tummy and pert, well-defined cleavage --...

What Is a Corset Modesty Panel?

It's been called many names: modesty panel, lacing protector, modesty flap or lacing flap, back flap, back panel, placket. All are terms for the slim-boned piece of fabric designed to slide between the back laces of a corset and the wearer's skin....

What Is the Difference Between Stays & Corsets?

Foundation garments, ranging from today's Spanx to the corsets and stays of yesteryear, change the shape of a woman's body to match the silhouette and style of the time. If you're stepping back in time in a historical gown, your push-up bra and...

Should a Corset Be Worn With High Heels?

Corsets (and their lookalike cousin, the bustier) grant any girl instant curves galore. They're ultrafeminine and more than a little dramatic and naughty, considering they started out as underwear and then took a turn into the fetish world before...

How to Wear Corsets

Corsets are miracle undergarments that shape your body and give you a sexy 1950s hourglass shape. Whether Marilyn Monroe is your style icon or you just want to show the world your feminine curves, a corset can vamp up your look and get you plenty...