The craft of corset construction is obvious as corsetry, as is the general wearing of them. Someone who makes corsets is a corsetier or corsetière (French terms for a man and for a woman, respectively), or sometimes candidly a corsetmaker. (The word corsetry is sometimes also absorbed as a collective plural form of corset.)

Corsets are held together by lacing, above all (though not always) at the back. Depending on the desired effect and clock period, corsets can be laced from the elite down, from the basal up, or both up from click here the ground and down from the top, using two laces that meet in the middle. It is difficult — although not impossible — for a back-laced corset-wearer to do his or her own lacing