Jesus. Christ. If you buy this prepare yourself. I was able to do enough work on it to make it look nice. So here we go. This is a PADDED CORSET! MOTHER OF GOD WHY?! I had to cut small openings around the corset to pull out the UNEVEN stuffing. I'm laughing because it was so shotty. It was uneven padding. Some was about a quarter inch thick...some AN INCH! Ok, so after pulling out the stuffing I no longer looked like a tree trunk. But it was BIG. I got an XS. I had to take it in (best place is in the back close to the zippers). After that the corset worked, kinda. There's ZERO boning in it (nope not even plastic). Honestly this was easier than what I was going to do (Hello leatherwork, my old friend). Just be weary and know you will have to do a lot of work it's NOT wearable out of the bag.