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Follow these Tips to Enhance Your Corset's Life
If you are buying a high-quality corset, you must have spent a good amount of money on it. Of course, you will not like it if it gets damaged in just a few couples of days. It is important to take care of corsets to stay up durable and keep on offering you benefits for a longer time.
Earlier during the Victorian days, women used corsets of their mothers and grandmothers too. This means the corsets of those times were quite durable and rigid. But another important thing to consider is that women knew the art of mending the corsets at home during those times. Also, they knew how to take extensive care of the corsets.
Taking care of the corsets is not a challenging task if some of the essential tips are followed carefully. Here are some of the important tips that you can follow to enhance your corset's life so that you can keep on wearing them for years ahead.
Season the Corset
The most eminent thing about the corsets is seasoning. If you have seasoned the corset properly and have allowed it well to mould with your body, it will stay durable for a good period. But if you have not allowed the corset to become soft or to mould as per your body shape, and you start waist training, this exerts not only pressure on your body but also the corset. The steel bones can bend in the wrong way, and the corset's fabric can tear from the wring place that cannot be mended easily. Hence, you should give the corset to season well before starting waist training if you wish to keep yourself and your corset healthy for a longer time.
Do Not Wash It
Another major thing you need to take care of is that you should not wash a corset similar to your other attires. Do not even try to spin the corset in your washing machine. When the washing machine spins the corset with high speed, the corset's steel bones will bang on the walls of the washing machine. This way, the bones can damage the body of the washing machine. Also, this way, the steel bones can get damaged.
Another reason for not washing the corsets is that the water can damage the steel bones by rusting them. Does that mean there are no options to clean the corset? You can clean the corset by using different techniques such as dry cleaning and spot cleaning.
Do Not Sleep or Exercise in Corset
Corsets are manufactured to restrict your body movement and exert pressure on your waist and abdomen to reduce their size. Also, it helps correct your posture so that you can have a proper silhouette and get rid of your back pain problems. Moreover, the corset's purpose is to keep you straight while you are sitting, standing, or walking.
But this cannot happen while you are sleeping. When you are deep in sleep, you do not even realize what posture you are in. In such a case, there are high chances that you will be going against the corset, which will again exert high pressure on you and the corset. So, there are chances that the corset can hurt you and also, it can get damaged in the case.
The same thing happens when you are exercising wearing a corset. While exercising, you have to flexible in different movements. So, when you exert more pressure in making your moves, the corset either ends up hurting you at different places or may get damaged from its different places.
Store it Properly
The most eminent thing about the corsets is seasoning. If you have seasoned the corset properly and have allowed it well to mould with your body, it will stay durable for a good period. But if you have not allowed the corset to become soft or to mould as per your body shape, and you start waist training, this exerts not only pressure on your body but also the corset. The steel bones can bend in the wrong way, and the corset's fabric can tear from the wring place that cannot be mended easily. Hence, you should give the corset to season well before starting waist training if you wish to keep yourself and your corset healthy for a longer time.
Wear the Right Way
Another major thing you need to take care of is that you should not wash a corset similar to your other attires. Do not even try to spin the corset in your washing machine. When the washing machine spins the corset with high speed, the corset's steel bones will bang on the walls of the washing machine. This way, the bones can damage the body of the washing machine. Also, this way, the steel bones can get damaged.
Another reason for not washing the corsets is that the water can damage the steel bones by rusting them. Does that mean there are no options to clean the corset? You can clean the corset by using different techniques such as dry cleaning and spot cleaning.
