I had a strange dream the other morning that I just remembered. In it, I was living in Victorian times and the man I was with kept me tightly laced up in a corset. In the dream the corset wasn’t uncomfortable as it would have been in real life, it was erotic. I’d sigh with pleasure as he pulled the strings tighter. Like most dreams I don’t remember if this had a storyline or not but I remember images. Towards the end I was not only in the corset but also in metal handcuffs, and the whole thing was terribly erotic.
I’ve read that a corset that fits well is not uncomfortable at all. This piece I read indicated that these thoughts of women fainting, or hurting from being in corsets stemmed from the proposition that the wealthy women at the royal court all had tailor made perfectly fitting corsets, never uncomfortable, but in trying emulate them, the middle classes went cheap on the fit and ended up with these painful ones that crushed their organs, made them woosy and such. I couldn’t find that article in trying to find it for you, but here is a general link about corset fit and comfort http://www.wickedcurves.biz/tightlacing-corsets.php
Corsets cover a body part that, on women, varies wildly from person to person or even on the same person from one time in her life to another. So if you are going to have it fit tightly, one can see why fit is so important and really you need to go with custom.
It sounds like dude in your dream took a while to get you a custom fitting one and it paid off.