This is the first corset I've ever made myself. It's custom made to fit me specifically, and the pattern I used was from Victorian ages. Luckily, the only way I had to alter the pattern was to make it a little longer, on account the one that fit me length wise was too big, and the one that fit me width wise was too short.

It has three layers, the green outter fabric, fuseable interfacing in the center, and black cotil on the inside. There are 14 pieces of steel boning in it, 12 are a half inch wide and two are an inch wide. The 12 half inch wide ones were attached externally, and they are inside the vertical black strips. The two inch wide ones are attached internally, and in the back next to the grommits for extra support. The grommits were attached by hand, with hammers and a little bit of glue.

When it's laced all the way shut, I have a hard time breathing, and it's horrible for your body, so I usually lace it with a half inch to an inch gap at the waist. Women who used to wear these corsets, back when people wore them every day underneith their clothes, had their organs pushed up into their rib cage, their ribs curved inward, their spines and muscles couldn't support themselves without the corset, it just really wrecked havock on their bodies. Some women acctually had to wear these odd contraptions that looked like small bike seats, which acctually had pieces pushing up into them (I'm assuming you know what I mean) to keep their organs from being pushed out.

Don't worry. I don't plan on wearing it every day, let alone once a week. That would just be make my body hate me even more. I think it's pretty though.

The photos are awful. I will upload better ones once I have someone to take them for me. Taking photos of yourself in a corset is extreamly hard.