From around 2019 and accelerating through the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath, the corset returned as a self-consciously chosen fashion item among younger women, particularly in the United Kingdom and United States. Driven partly by Taylor Swift's Folklore era aesthetics, cottagecore social media trends, and a broader fashion return to vintage silhouettes, the corset was worn as outerwear, deliberately chosen rather than socially obligated, by a generation of women who had grown up with feminist discourse about the garment's history. The trend was extensively analysed in feminist media.

The contemporary corset revival has generated considerable poetry and essay writing from young feminist writers who are grappling with what it means to choose a historically oppressive garment — to wear the corset as both homage and reclamation. Poets publishing in online literary journals and through Instagram and TikTok have addressed the corset's generational journey from imprisonment to fashion choice. The conversation circles back to Judith Butler's performativity theory and Angela Carter's revisionary strategies, applied now by poets who have inherited these feminist frameworks.