Natalia arrives on a padded, black satin hanger and is enclosed in a clear plastic bag. The hanger is obviously for storage when you are not wearing the corset. I do keep and use the plastic garment bag with the hanger for the corset also. This keeps cobwebs and dust from getting on the Natalia. Our house seems to have a lot of spiders, no matter what we do to get rid of them.

The first thing you notice is the beautiful material!! The satin material is a deep maroon/raspberry color and the black net lace with dotted swiss accents that covers the satin, makes the overall corset coloring black cherry. The material goes from black to dark red depending on the light and shadows. Too pretty!!

The back has 3 hook and eye adjustments. The front is laced and the breast has a flimsy but effective underwire lace bra. The lace is soft and was not itchy. I did re-lace the corset with two laces. The first is tied at the waist and the second at the bottom. This allowed better waist tightening and suited my figure much better than a single lacing.

This corset can also be worn backwards if your chest area is thin enough, luckily mine was!! This allows the bra to show above the corset and looked very sexy. I will have pictures of the corset worn both ways in a couple days...my camera died and I need to buy a new one.

The stitching is perfect, no loose strings, uneven hems, etc. The material is high quality, but the boning is plastic. I remove the plastic boning and replace them with metal boning, there is a tutorial in the forums. The interior is a soft, black, brushed polyester satin.

The material is 100% polyester. The cleaning instructions recommend dry cleaning only. I do hand wash this in cold water with a mild detergent and let it drip dry. This has worked very well and the material has not sustained any damage from being hand washed. Do NOT wring out the material, however!

The garter and shoulder straps are removable. The boyshorts are lace, have a cotton panty liner and are amazingly comfortable. I love the underwear and have been wearing them for daily wear as well as with the corset. The fit and sizing of the boy shorts matched the hip measurement of the sizing chart. The underwear are hand washed as well.

SIZING:

My Measurements: 43D Breast - 30" Waist - 42" Hips - 28" Inseam - 22" Thighs - 5"2" Tall & 150 Lbs.

Corset Size: 38

DreamGirl Sizing: (Copied and pasted from the sizing charts.)
Cup Bust (in) Waist (in) Hip (in) Inseam (in) Rise (in) Weight (lb)
Small 2 - 6 A - B 32 - 34 24 - 26 34 - 36 34½ 7 - 7½ 90 - 120
Medium 6 - 10 B - C 34 - 36 26 - 28 36 - 38 35 7½ - 8 120 - 140
Large 10 - 14 C - D 36 - 38 28 - 32 38 - 40 35½ 8 - 8½ 140 - 150
Sm/Med 2 - 8 A - B 32 - 34 24 - 26 34 - 36 35 7½ - 8 90 - 130
Med/Lg 8 - 14 B - C 36 - 38 28 - 32 38 - 40 35½ 8 - 8½ 130 - 160
1X/2X 16 - 18 D - DD 40 - 48 36 - 40 42 - 48 36½ 9 - 9½ 165 - 225
3X/4X 18 - 20 DD 48 - 54 40 - 44 50 - 56 37 9½ - 10 225 - 275
One Size 2 - 14 B - C 32 - 38 24 - 32 34 - 40 35 7½ - 8 60 - 160
Queen One Size 16 - 20 D - DD 40 - 54 36 - 44 42 - 56 36½ 9 - 9½ 165 - 275

This is one of my absolute favorite corsets. I am in love with the color!! And the style. And the quality. Natalia was a gamble for me, my husband does not like red, however, since this corset is a dusky but shiny black cherry color, he is really liking me in it!

If you want a gorgeous, high quality and uniquely designed corset---this is the one!!