For those interested in exploring vintage styles, retailers such as What Katie Did and Rago Shapewear continue to produce authentic-style girdles and longline shapers.

While girdles provide immediate aesthetic results, they do not offer permanent changes to the body's musculature.

: Often paired with stockings and used for general smoothing.

Historically, the girdle served as an essential undergarment designed to sculpt the body by compressing the waist and hips.