India, Nov. 8 -- No need to faint. Everyone seems to be in their corset era, but no one looks as out of breath as they used to be. The ladies in Bridgerton (Netflix's raunchy, Regency-period drama) seem to do just fine in theirs. And every celebrity, from Bella Thorne and Sydney Sweeney to Janhvi Kapoor and Ananya Panday, have been lacing themselves in at every opportunity. It's a long-standing fashion quick-fix. Squeeze into one, get an assistant to tighten the stays at the back, and a nipped-in waist magically appears, the bust gets lifted, a cleavage is conjured from thin air, the posture gets straighter, the silhouette becomes an hourglass. But shopping for a corset can be a Victorian nightmare if you don't know what you're doing. Celebrity stylists Shaleena Nathani, Priyanka Yadav, Priyanka Kathuria and Manish Mishra, who have dressed Bollywood stars such as Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone and Karisma Kapoor, share their best hacks on buying your first corset. Yadav recently styled fashion editor Nandini Bhalla in an East-meets-West fit, layering an embellished black corset over a white shirt that was "pulled one way to make it a bare-shoulder look". A pleated Kasavu saree was draped as a skirt, "with a paranda adding a fun element". Kathuria has tips for making a single corset work in multiple ways: "Turn the one you wore with a lehenga into a streetwear outfit by pairing it with baggy pants, boots, an interlocked necklace, a stack of chunky gold bracelets and statement gold hoop earrings." Either way, the trick to enjoying your corset is to slowly get used to it by wearing it for a few hours at a time. They're better for a cocktail party, where everyone's standing around, nibbling on small bites, than at a seated, multicourse dinner. Leather corsets are best worn over clothes; softer fabrics play better on bare skin. The idea is to be compressed, never in pain. And when you're done wearing your corset, and can finally breathe easier, don't toss it into the washing machine. "Clean any spots with a damp cloth, air dry it, and store it flat or wrapped in tissue so it keeps its shape," Yadav recommends. For anything more serious, dry clean....