Andy Warhol was shot in 1968 and never fully recovered, and wore a corset for the rest of his life.

Corsets are almost always constructed of a flexible material (like cloth, particularly coutil, or leather) stiffened with boning (also called ribs or stays) inserted into channels in the Sexy Corsets cloth or leather. In the 19th century, steel and whalebone were favored for the boning.