Cashmere camisoles with laced fronts suggesting corset tops are adorable.

Some of the dresses are constructed with visible corset tops, or at least waist nippers.

"It had a corset top that laced up in the back and took a really long time to get into," she said.

The day of the corset top may have passed, but the other revivals were eye-openers.

A corset top over a tank top.

They are on display in a sculptured black corset top, and Mr. Izzard calls attention to them early.

The outfit looked totally impractical, but the corset top was a dancer's corset.

When he first suggested a corset top for me, I'd made the mistake of saying, "I'll wear a corset when you do."

He traced his hand over the mound of my breast, dipping a little lower than the corset top until he caressed London's bite.

Of course, Ms. Westwood tarted them up a bit with corset tops and what she called minikilts.