Mumbai, Jan. 13 -- Corsets first saw the light of the day when Catherine de Medici, queen consort of King Henry II of France introduced them in the French court in the 1500's. The women in the French court then saw hourglass figure as the ultimate symbol of a woman's beauty and embraced corsets whole heartedly. Initially corsets were made of bone wrenching materials such as whalebone, metal, wood, ivory and cane. Since the Elizabethan and Victorian era, corsets have gone through tremendous evolution and now-a-days soft boning does the trick.

Irrespective of the fact that wearing corsets is excruciatingly painful, this piece of apparel is no way close to going out of style. From experimenting with materials and style, corsets can be seen ...