If your just getting into waist training and need your first corset training corset, or your a serious 23/7 tight lacer who gets through a lot of corsets, your going to be looking around the internet at the various corset makers (maybe just your favourites if you’ve been training long enough to have some) and asking yourself how your going to make this months budget stretch to a new $300 underbust? Well there is another way.

If you’ve never considered sewing your own corset, maybe because learning seems like more effort than climbing mount everest, or possibly just because you don’t have a sewing machine, then maybe it’s time to give it some serious thought. Learning isn’t as hard as you may think, it seems daunting for a newbie to sewing to take on such a complex garment as a lined corset training corset but there are a number of good books, videos and courses out there that will literally hold your hand at each step. I should know, thats how I learnt! And my prior sewing experience was limited to a half finished skirt from home economics class and a few dress alterations. I bought a book from Amazon and borrowed my mums sewing machine – she of course said I couldn’t make something as complex as a corset having never sewn even simple clothes. Which of course made me even more determined! I was very smug when after a few days I emerged from the sewing room covered in thread and wearing my very first corset. It was a fiddly project but it got quicker every time I made one, which is the joy of taking up corset making or indeed anything making. It gets easier the more you do it and my corset designs got more elaborate. 

So I bought my own sewing machine and after a while started selling online and suddenly, rather than costing me money, corset training started to make me money! Custom corsetry really is a viable business if you want to take it that far. Nowadays I spend more time producing teaching materials like my ‘how to make a corset‘ DVDs and my printable corset patterns, but I still make all my own corsets (well, there are a few amazing corsetiers I frequent, sometimes it’s nice to wear something by a different designer). 

So if this has swayed you, or even just pricked your ears, consider this – a sewing machine may seem like a big investment but it’ll cost you about as much as one decent corset training corset and you can make as many corsets as you want. Yes you need to buy the materials but there’s very little fabric in a corset compared with say a dress, and spiral steel corset bones are very cheap. The front opening busk will set you back around $20 but thats the most expensive part. Nothing compared to paying for a custom corset.

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