Modern Corsets - A Personal Choice
Author Maxim Tourou / Category Architecture / Published: Apr-05-2018
Corsetry has seen positive sides and negative sides due to the opinions that people have made about them. Some so many experts claim that the discontinuation of corsets in the past was for good. These experts follow some experts' theories in the past who mentioned that wearing a corset is unhealthy.
But are these opinions about corsets actually true?
Well, not all of them, but there are some facts in them.
Early Corsetry
About 200 years ago, women needed to wear corsets to maintain their figure. In fact, small girls used to start wearing corsets at an early age to get habituated to them. Also, men imposed the wearing of corsets over women so that their wives and daughters can maintain a proper shape.
Many experts also mentioned that the rule of corsetry was that they should be worn so tight that they would at times choke the women, which led many women to faint. It is still unknown whether this fact is true or not because not all women fainted, and not all women had health issues wearing corsets. It can also happen that some women were wearing the corsets in the wrong way that actually led them to have health issues.
Modern Corsetry - A Personal Choice
Luckily when corsetry made a comeback, it came as a personal choice and not a mandatory element.
● Not all women wear Corsets: The modern corsets have been welcomed by many women. But that does not mean that it has become a mandatory costume like that was during the Elizabethan Age. Today, women can decide whether they wish to wear a corset or they do not. Some women love flaunting their hourglass figure in these corsets, while others are against wearing corsets. So, it is a completely personal choice now.
● Waist Training is not Mandatory: Today there are different options available in corsets. While the authentic corset manufacturers manufacture the actual waist training corsets, another category has come up as the fashion corsets. These corsets are not to exert much pressure on your body and train your waist. Suppose you happy with your figure, and you need a little adjustment in your waist for a while to wear a particular dress. In that case, these fashion corsets are the perfect option to go for.
● Tighten Lace at your Convenience: The modern-day corset experts mention very clearly that you should feel comfortable in your corsets. Hence, it is not necessary that you have to tighten the laces too much and be in it even when you are not feeling comfortable. These experts have also explained the right way to train your waist by slowly getting habituated with the corsets and then start tightening the laces. But here also, they mention that you should never compromise with your comfort. Whenever you feel that you are not feeling good, you should loosen your laces to fill your lungs with air.
● Choose Your Way of Wearing a Corset: Nobody will impose the right way to wear a corset when you are comfortable in whatever way you are wearing them. Some so many women are pretty comfortable in the art of stealthing by concealing the corsets under their attire. Again, many other women love to flaunt their corsets along with their figure. Most celebrities today prefer to show off their corsets in place of concealing them. So, it depends upon your comfort zone whether you wish to wear it under your dresses or over.
● Different Options of Corsets: Another great thing about modern corsets is that you have a range of options available now. You can choose from a wide range of fabric options out of which the corsets are made, such as cotton, mesh, silk, brocade, satin, and even leather. You can choose the corset type based on your size and figure, such as underbust corsets, and lingerie corsets, or sweetheart neckline corsets in the case of overbust corsets.