This entry is a summary of the review video “Timeless Trends white/emerald silk underbust corsets” which you can watch on YouTube here:
| Fit, length | Front is about 11.5″ long. Gives a traditional Victorian hourglass silhouette, not wasp-waisted; I’m able to achieve 3-4 inch waist reduction. Comes over the hips a little on me. All of their corsets are the same pattern/shape. |
| Material | Outer silk brocade in green (or white; I reviewed 2 different corsets here) which is fused to twill. Comes in many different colours and fabrics. Inner twill. |
| Construction | Appears to have been lock-stitched, with the boning sandwiched between the two layers of twill. |
| Binding | Satin bias binding in matching colour; machine stitched on both inside and outside. |
| Waist tape | A 1″ wide “invisible) waist tape – sandwiched between the two layers of twill. |
| Modesty panel | No back lacing protector, no front placket. |
| Busk | Standard flexible busk, about 10 inches long. |
| Boning | 26 bones (not including busk), 20 are 1/4″ wide spiral steel; 6 flat steels, 3/8″ wide, beside the busk and grommets. |
| Grommets | 28 grommets total, size #0 two-part grommets with moderate flange; absolutely no wear/fraying/pulling out of grommets even after 2 years of use. |
| Laces | 1/2″ wide satin ribbon (not double-face). Experienced snapping of laces after 1.5 years; however extra laces are available for $3.50 US |
| Price | Most underbusts are $99 USD when not on sale. |
Final Thoughts:
This was my first (real!) purchased corset, and so it holds great sentimental value to me. Not only that, but even when I could cinch down to smaller sizes and styles (like my wasp-waist training corset from Bezerk), I still came back to this one because it gave such a flattering silhouette that was slim yet relatively natural-looking both over and under clothing (you can see the silhouette in my video; note that I can’t have possibly manipulated the silhouette by lacing it in a )( shape, especially because the green one is completely closed in the back). In the several years I’ve owned their corsets, I have never once had an issue with a bone poking through, a seam ripping, a grommet coming loose etc. These guys take their lifetime guarantee seriously.
For about two years I had been recommending this brand to people freely, expecting nothing in return. Nowadays I still recommend it – so much that I’ve become a distributor. How’s that for a positive review?
Having spent the last nearly-three hours stalking your blog in the hopes of finding some tips on cannibalising a crap corset I have, I just have to mention – I bought one of these, it looked beautiful on the website, and i HATED it. Rather than giving any kind of hourglass, it just sort of smooshed me into a cylinder shape. It wasn’t close to “Victorian” as they had claimed, it was just bad.
Really?
They’ve always given me a beautiful shape, much more of an hourglass compared to the Corsets-UK style underbusts. Well, I guess it’s understandable that one style of corset won’t do miracles on every sort of body.