Corset Lacing Guide
How to lace your Gallery Serpentine Corset
Corsets with back lacing only:
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Edwardian Styles
Underbust Victorian
Waspie
Pointy Cincher
Straight Style Cincher
Corsets with front and back lacing:
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Long line Femme Fatale
Long Line Victorian
Femme Fatale
Widow styles
Lucretia
Buckled Corsets
Guide to lacing your back lacing Corset
Loosen the back lacing of the corset as wide as it will go by undoing the bow at the back of the corset and
pulling the two sides of the corset away from each other.
Wrap the corset around your body and clip the busk hooks up starting from the bottom.
Please don't try and do the busk up without first loosening the back lacing.
Once the busk has been done up tighten the corset using the back lacing.
It is important to find the loops which are situated in the centre of the back lacing at waist level
( see diagram above)
The top part of the loops pulls in the bust area of the corset and bottom the part of the loops pulls in the
hip area of the corset.
Tighten to a comfortable level and then tie in a bow.
You may find that firm pulling on the laces is required to sufficiently tighten
the corset, especially at the upper back level.
Guide to lacing your front and back lacing corset
Loosen the back lacing of the corset as wide as it will go by undoing the bow at the back of the corset
and pulling the two sides of the corset away from each other.
Then loosen the front lacing a little so that the front gap is approximately 2 - 3 inches wide
( there is usually no need to completely unlace the front of the corset).
Put the corset on over your head. We advise removing glasses hair ornaments etc
before putting the corset on.
To tighten the back lacing it is important to find the loops which are situated in the centre of the
back lacing at waist level ( see diagram above)
The top part of the loop pulls in the bust area of the corset and the bottom part of the loop pulls
in the hip area of the corset. Tighten to a comfortable level and then tie in a bow.
Once the back has been tightened, pull on the front lacing to enhance the bust area and tighten to the desired level then tie in a bow.
You may find that firm pulling on the laces is required to sufficiently tighten the corset, especially at the upper back level.