The costume was made from rayon-satin constructed on a strapless merry widow corset teddy. She wore the same black pointy corset and fishnets as in the music video. Beyonce was dresses in a golden corset and a royal gown to whoo the crowd. An "underbust corset" begins just under the breasts and extends down toward the hips. It absorbed perspiration and kept the corset and the gown clean. Underneath she wore the Gaultier conical corset. The boning supports the desired shape and prevents wrinkling of the corset fabric. It was a boneless style, much closer to a modern girdle than the traditional corset. This was sold as an alternative to the boned corset. She had an exaggerated S-curve torso shape achieved by wearing a swan-bill corset. At first, the longline corset reached from the bust down to the upper thigh. Like the neck corset, a collar serves some of the same purposes. One showed Bardot from behind, dressed in a white corset. Her mother was a former corset and fashion model. A corset brace is similar to a traditional corset.