All our corsets are made to measure. I do not offer ready made corsets; for those you must seek elsewhere. But, as a dedicated corsetmaker I strongly recommend custom made corset, even though it is more expensive and it takes more time and patience to get one. I have seen many ready made corsets, brought to me by desperate customers, asking for some adjustments so that the corset would fit. (I always must say no to such pleas, because there's no way a ready made corset can be remade into a perfectly fitting one.) Some of those corsets were of good quality (good material, good boning, well sewn), some were not - my advice is, if you really want to give ready made corsets a try, choose one of the big and well-known manufacturers. Avoid cheap God-knows-from-where imports at all costs! If you want to wear the corset more often than once in two weeks, if you plan to tightlace (ready made corset cannot be used for tightlacing!), if you want to look good in it, don't try to save money by buying a ready made. In the end it will cost you more than going right for a custom made. And it's about health too - a tightlaced ready made corset will hurt and can even cause damage.

I have many experience with "long-distance" corsetmaking; even many customers from my country, where people are used to put 100 kilometers already into the "long journey" category, prefer ordering the corset without going to fittings. I must proudly say not one corset has ever returned to me; on the contrary, some customers did and ordered another corset.

Materials - fabrics

My favourite material is satin, and 90% of my corsets are made of satin. Satin is comfortable when worn under clothes and beautiful, when worn for all to see. It is firm and does not stretch.
I can also make the corset of another fabric, if you prefer less shiny material. I almost don't use brocades; first, brocades are hard to find in our country, and second, those I had to work with were of pretty bad quality, so I do not recommend them. I have good experience with patterned satins.
I really do not recommend velvet corsets. For a corsetmaker or dressmaker velvet is a real pain to work with, but that is not the main reason; velvet has many other disadvantages. It is heavy, tends to be bulky (a little wrinkle on a satin corset will go unnoticed, but a velvet wrinkle, that's another story), it is warm (very bad when you want to go, say we, dancing) and above all, it looks sturdy because of the hair. It may be nice to touch, but it will totally ruin the slimming effect of the corset. If you want a heavy, monumental evening gown like Sarah O'Hara, go for velvet, otherwise forget it.

All our corsets have the usual three layers - the top (e.g. satin), the bottom (comfortable plain weave cotton in a suitable color (usually white or cream in light corsets, black in dark corsets) and the middle reinforcement layer.

I do not work with leather and PVC materials.

Materials - boning

Spring steel boning or Desira boning is possible.
The special plastic Desira dual-component bones are an innovative German product. It is lighter than steel, but it doesn't have the two usual disadvantages of plastic bones - fragility and lack of strength, thanks to hard and strong fibres enclosed in a light and flexible sleeve. Desira boned corsets can be as restrictive as steel boned ones - some of my male customers tried tightlacing to achieve a female figure and succeeded. And you can faint in such corset as easily as in a steel boned one, as can confirm my poor assistant, often used as corset model or a fitting figurine.
The other advantages of Desira bones are: they don't rust, are resistant to water, sweat and UV radiation. They are more resilient than steel, keep their flexibility longer. They don't twist and bend so easily as spiral steel bones. And they are also a little cheaper.
Desira boned corsets are great for all classes of corset wearers - both those who wear a corset once in a year to a ball and those who want to stay laced all day. Only the dedicated tightlacers used to steel bones may find Desira boned corset unsatisfyingly light; but it might be a good option for night corsets. With the years of experience covering me I can strongly recommend these corsets especially for beginning and intermediate tightlacers.

Materials - busks

I use the usual Wigona steel busks. Your corset can be made with or without the busk - see gallery for some examples. Sometimes it is good to omit the busk, because the corset looks better without it. Front lacing corsets have no busk.