As early as the 18th century, a laced bodice was widely known in women's clothing, which women and even little girls dragged on very tightly to be beautiful and slender. According to the fashion of that time, only commoners and provincials went without such a toilet item. In modern times, corsets were somehow forgotten, but today they are back in fashion.
Modern corsets are an intimate subject of women's wardrobe. For their manufacture use leather or lace. Especially popular are corsets-graces that gently correct the figure and do not harm health. Such corsets are made of elastic material or dense, breathable fabric. A corset helps complete ladies to hide figure flaws, and brides get it with a wasp waist, femininity and sexuality with it.
A corset helps to hide the stomach and lifts the chest, so many people don the corset without decorations under a business suit, but you can wear it on top of the dress. The corset can be bought in specialized stores at a fairly high price or tailored to order. It is important to choose the right corset, otherwise it will dig into the body and cause inconvenience.
Many women who want to look beautiful, but for some reason cannot buy a ready-made corset, are concerned about the question: how to sew a corset? First you need to make a pattern. Modeling of the corset begins at the highest point of the chest. Depending on the features of the figure, the chest line can be made higher or lower. For tightening, the volume is reduced by 6-10 centimeters.
How to sew a corset if the figure in the hips is very full? In this case, you can expand the corset in the thigh line by inserting slanting wedges into the side seams. Before you sew a corset, you need to pick up the fabric. The most practical is considered a special silk fabric, as well as a damask. For lining use coarse calico, satin, satin, tarpaulin, lyonnaise and other fabrics. If two cotton fabrics will be used to make the corset, the denser will go up, and the less dense will go down. It is important to observe the direction of the thread: the upper fabric is cut along the lobar, and the lining - across.
How to sew a tightening corset? Such a corset must withstand a large power load, so it is recommended to make it three-layer, that is, between the cover and lining fabric, you need to insert a dense fabric such as a collar or burlap. Canvas also works. On the middle layer sew a tape for the waist and backstage for the bones. For a non-linen corset, the upper part can be made elegant: taffeta, brocade, satin, velvet and even silk, but not Chinese, will be suitable, since too thin fabric will burst at the seams. The corset needs to be additionally strengthened with spring steel bones, a plastic "whalebone" or regiline.
Sometimes, strips cut from plastic bottles are used to strengthen the corset, but such corsets cannot be ironed after washing. Regilin is used to strengthen corsages of wedding and evening dresses, it is not used for weighting.
Spring steel bones can be ordered through the online store for about 50 rubles or more for one piece. It seems to be not expensive, but one corset may need up to 25 bones! Plastic whalebone can be bought in major cities in specialized stores, for example, in Moscow. It is sold in rolls with a footage of 25 rubles per meter. A plastic whalebone is convenient in that you can cut bones of any length, it bends well, does not break, does not rust and can be ironed. So that the ends of the mustache do not pierce the fabric, they need to be melted on the burner.
The disadvantage is that the plastic whalebone, unlike steel bones, bends, that is, takes the shape of a body, and to straighten it, the corset is ironed each time. The holes into which the lacing is threaded must be formed with eyelets. They are sold in bulk at the store or along with the tool with which they are installed, but you can install them in the workshop. The main thing is that the eyelets are installed parallel to each other.
To correct the lower part of the figure, a corset belt is often used, which allows a woman to maintain an almost perfect shape, visually significantly reducing the waist. This is made possible thanks to additional vertical bones, a special cut and elastic fabric.
For the convenience of women, seamless designs have also been developed. Such a corset is made in accordance with the principle of the structure of the human body, so it does not cause any particular inconvenience while wearing.
For children, a special corset is used for children, which is vital for children with congenital body defects.