Orchard Corset Center

I love Orchard Corset. I passed the shop hundreds of times while walking my dog in the neighborhood and I always felt a little intimidated. I’m so glad I finally worked up the courage to walk inside and purchase a corset in November 2015. The owner and his wife are fantastic, she took me behind a curtain and gave me the rundown.
I said I was interested in waist training, but in a natural sense (I’m not looking for Cathie Jung level lacing). She had me try on two styles and I fell in love with the sensation immediately. I was a little apprehensive to find out the price, but was pleasantly surprised by the affordability of my beautiful new lingerie.
I began daily training, and when my mother visited the city and wanted to go bra shopping, I knew I had to take her to Orchard Corset. She and the owner bonded immediately and she found two perfect bras that she loves. While my mom was being fitted, I mentioned to Ralph that the steel boning in my corset was beginning to peek out of the bottom. He had me bring it in and said they would work on it.
Fast forward a month and a half later, after the holidays, I stopped back into the shop to check on the status of my corset. I was worried they wouldn’t remember me, I didn’t have a receipt or anything. They immediately remembered me and my mother, and I left the store with a replacement.
Overall, a fantastic little neighborhood gem. My back is happy, my mother is pleased, my boyfriend is thrilled, and my waist has never looked better. ALL THE STARS.

I really was iffy about going here given some reviews. Yes, it looks like a mess, but the woman is kind — the man doesn’t make you feel uncomfortable. I was in and out in less than 5 minutes. She looked at me with my bra recommended a bustier and it fit perfectly. I went here to find a better bustier for my wedding dress, since the one the Wedding Salon gave me was crap. The woman asked to see my dress and found exactly what I was looking for. I would recommend this to anyone.
Easy peasy 62 dollars for bustier.

Buyers beware!!!
I bought 2 corsets a few months ago online. But, they were too big. So I returned them for an appropriate size via FedEx. Weeks passed but I got only one corset! I called customer service, and the lady I spoke with told me they received my package with only ONE corset, and not two !!! I was shocked because I personally packed the box and sealed it before mailing it via FedEx to Orchard.
Besides, I still have the receipt from Fedex, showing me how much 2 steel-​boned corsets weigh and I much I paid for shipping.
I was told by the manager, that they were going to call back after they search their warehouse. But they never called back and they also shut down my online account .
Do not! (I repeat) Do not shop at Orchard!!!
You can get better service and better corset from other companies!!!

I got my first corset there!!! They were very efficient. They had someone help me try it on, they even showed me how to lace up myself. I will be back

Came in today looking for a corset for my Halloween costume. At first the lady was nice then as I continued to tell her what I wanted got rude. She showed me what she had. I told her I’ll come back if I don’t find what I’m looking for. I did just that this time around everyone in the store was really rude. The lady didn’t wanna help me, she yelled at the man in the store to get me the corset she had showed me. He brought out the wrong one and I told him it wasn’t the correct one so then he started yelling at her since she wasn’t paying attention. Finally after standing there for 4 mins waiting she gets up and finds the corset she showed me. After looking at it again I realized it, it wasn’t going to work for me. As I’m walking out the store the man yells at me «where you going?!» Like obviously I’m leaving your customer service skills are horrible! NEVER GOING BACK AGAIN!!!

I have been meaning to write a glowing review of Orchard Corset for years. Not only do they have a fantastic selection of bras, but their fitting expert is hands down the best person I’ve ever encountered at correctly determining your bra size and picking out bras that fit perfectly. After trying many other lingerie stores, I now buy all of my bras at Orchard Corset. The store may not look like much on the inside, but their selection and customer service is top notch. Very highly recommended!

I’ve bought several corsets here, and as an owner of lots of different corsets of different brands, including Voller’s and Alter Ego, I will say that these corsets fit incredibly well and are comfortable enough to wear for an entire evening. They are good quality and well priced. Don’t expect a glamorous shopping experience here, though. This is «no frills» but well stocked, and the sales girl always measures you to make sure you get the perfect fit. The low key atmosphere is part of the appeal for me.

I’ve purchased three corsets from Orchard over the past year, and the quality is great for what you pay. There are always 15−25% off sales going on, and if you subscribe to their email newsletter they send you exclusive coupon codes. (Pro tip: Online orders arrive the next day if you live within the five boroughs.) Their steel-​boned corsets come in a pretty good variety of styles, lengths, and colors. My personal favorite is their CS-​411 in black satin. They season pretty quickly and take on your natural shape after only a week or two of daily wear for a few hours. Your hourglass shape has never looked so good. ;)

They didn’t have want I wanted but they told me to go on line, the service will be always the same here. Don’t expect them to be friendly at all. But I know that before I went in.
So it’s better to order on line then deal with the rude husband and wife team

Coming here is such an experience. Whenever I am in NY I stop in and grab a few bras. This is unlike any bra experience you have ever had. She makes you take your shirt and bra off and then she checks you out, tells you what size you are — only by looking, and then goes and grabs you a few bras of «her» choice for you to try on.
She and her husband have been running this place for decades. I’ve been coming for over 10 years.
Today we came in for a corset. Same thing. Same eyeballing you for size. I warned the boyfriend the entire process usually takes about 15 – 20 minutes. Today we were in and out in 10! Bought the first one she tried on me. The BEST!

My review is based on the New York shop alone, not the website, ordering experience or corset itself.
The store is pretty dingy. When I walked by it looked like a dumpy old sex shop from the outside. I had to double back because I didn’t even realize this was the place.
If the store is open, the doors are locked. I try to open the door and an older lady on her phone her phone looks up at me like I’m stupid. I make a quizzical face, like «is this place open?» and she finally gets it and lets me in.
The inside of this store is not organized or inciting at all. There are boxes everywhere, very much akin to Olivander’s in Harry Potter as another reviewer pointed out. It’s a small store and I was hoping to see all of their corsets side by side so I could compare them, but they were all tucked away and untouchable. There is no way for you to browse the wide variety of corsets offered at all.
So the fitting. The lady owner tells me to hold my waist, tells me I’m a 22″ 411, and tells the woman who opened the door to help me try it on. I asked to see a 20″ as I have a 22″ I’m close to closing, and the lady looks at me sarcastically and says «oh, well okay then» to the woman helping me as she fetches a 20″. Luckily that was the exact style I had come in to purch; if this was my first corset fitting, I’m sure I would have been steamrolled by the owner into getting the most basic corset, the 411, without having my actual measurements taken or curves assessed. The owners indifference towards is truly astounding.
The selection of colors offered in store are nowhere near the variety available online. There was bored or white satin, no plain cotton and no mesh 411. I was very disappointed. I purchased a 411 in black satin. I would like to have tried a 426-​short to maybe buy it in the future, but the store had a very uncomfortable atmosphere and I just did not want to subject myself to that any longer.
When I got home, I realized a minor stitching imperfection or two, but the big difference between this corset and the ones I bought online were the tags. My corsets ordered online has different tags. The one ordered online came with a Orchard Corset tree logo embroidered on a large white cloth tag, and the size was printed on an equally large black tag. The corset purchased at the shop had a small white plastic tag that only said «20» on it.
Update: I emailed Orchard and confirmed that while the site and store are owned by the same people, the store has a different stock than the website and you cannot exchange a corset purchased online at the store and vice versa.
Anyway, the in store experience is abysmal. The owners are apathetic and slightly rude. The only reason that I’ve given it two stars is because they obviously carry a product that I want. I bought a corset and I’m pleased with it.
If you know what kind of corset you want, just order it online. Google coupon codes and get that 15% and just wait a week. It’s not worth it to go to this place unless you are helplessly lost in the choosing a corset process and are willing to beg that female owner for real help in sizing you.

My review is based on the online return center. I ordered a corset as per the website’s sizing suggestions… which were wrong.
Then when I sent the corset back, I had to pay for shipping it back to them, and when they sent it back, it was still the wrong size, BUT they sent 2 wrong ones, and I had to pay shipping once more on my end.
I received a phone call and I spoke with a woman named «Michelle» who had no idea what she was speaking about when giving me price quotes and who assumed I had somehow hustled them into giving me an extra corset. She guessed at some pricing and told me a manager would call me back.
2 days later, I call THEM, and she lies about having called me in the morning. She then told me I would have to pay MORE MONEY to get the right item sent out. Only, when I told her I was dissatisfied with her service, and that I would not order again, her response was «that’s fine.» And SHE suggested I get refunded altogether. Not to mention, I’m already down $ 20 for shipping it out twice to them.
I would never deal with a company that does not value their customers individually, or hire people that say it’s simply «Okay» to have someone write a bad review as I told her I would. Shame on you!

Pros: the corset is good quality, and does the trick. It also costs about $ 80 which is rather inexpensive for waist training purposes.
Cons: what in the bloody hell is wrong with the owners? Orthodox Jews, high off discrimination and judgments! I walked in with my girlfriend (platonic), and I’m not sure if maybe because she was wearing a blazer and a batman t shirt (she’s professional, I swear), they thought we were lesbians. They were literally on their phones doing God knows what while I was trying to ask questions about my purchase. They gave attitude and took their sweet time to lift their eyes off their stupid phone to show some respect to their customers. I would rather pay more, for better service.
Ps. When you walk in, do you remember when Harry Potter was choosing wands? Yea. Imagine that, only with corsets in shoe boxes.

Decided to give this place a try… I don’t have a proper body shape, and losing 50 pounds did not help my body shape either, I needed a waist training corset asap!
Came in and the man in the front asked me right away whether I was serious in waist training or not… I said yes, yes I am… he then pulled up this beautiful black corset with little lighter black shiny designs on it. He said my torso was short so this was my size… just by looking!!! He also recommended me to watch the videos online and good luck on my training!
Overall had a great experience, was there in and out.

This place is frigging amazing. I wanted to buy a waist training steel boned corset online but I was confused given all the options, and a little concerned because my torso is shorter than a lot of women. So I found this place online, called and voila! on a Friday morning I was there.
As other reviews have mentioned, this business is a mom and pop kind of establishment owned by an Orthodox couple. Sometimes I’m wary of those super small family businesses because the owners tend to be aloof, hyper defensive, and iffy on what comprises good customer service but I had a lovely experience here. The gentleman was able to size me for a corset on sight only (he said, «Trust me I do this for a living») and his wife put the corset on me. I was in and out in less than 10 minutes, enough time for me to go home and take a nap before work.
Again, as others have mentioned this isn’t a place for browsing and window shopping. This is a place to get fittings and purchase things. If you know what to expect, you’ll leave very satisfied.

I came down here incredibly eager for my first fitting. I was not expecting to be *severely* discriminated against and humiliated.
I’m a transgender woman. When I first came down, I was just starting to transition — i.e. my breasts were just starting to grow, and I wanted to be fit for my first bra.
I called in advance to feel out what the situation would be like. I was told that I would have to schedule a specific time to come by when a man was there to fit me, apparently. Red flags went off right away… but I decided to give it a shot anyhow.
When I got there, I was told that I couldn’t come in because there was another woman in the store — and my presence, as a trans woman, would make her uncomfortable.
Really???
Determined to try this out, regardless… I waited.
After she left, I went into the store. The man at the counter — the owner — found a random bra, tossed it at me, and told me I should buy it. I said I needed to try it on…
… and he wouldn’t let me enter the dressing room.
Mind you, this is after having waited for the previous woman to leave.
I’m a woman. I live my life as a woman. I use women’s dressing rooms, restrooms, etc. — because I’m a woman.
But this man wouldn’t let me try on a bra in the woman’s fitting room, even after his other patrons had left.
He insisted that if I wanted to try it on, I could *strip down in the middle of the store* — in full view of the window & open door — and try it on there.
That’s the kind of place this is.
That’s the kind of people who run it.
Do *not* give them your patronage, unless that’s the kind of behavior you want to support.

So I stumbled onto this place on Google search while researching about waist training and then of course I searched for the company on Unilocal to check out the reviews. After reading the reviews on Unilocal,I bookmarked the business and just waited for an opportunity to visit the store. My sister asked me where can she purchase a corset and immediately I suggested Orchard Corset so we begin our journey into the city. A gentleman came over to us asking us what were looking for and we told him. He then sizes us up by looking at our torso and gives us both corsets that he said were for us. There were a perfect fit for both of us. Thank you so much Orchard Corset and I will definitely recommend this store to others who may be looking for great quality bras and corsets along with impeccable service.

For the quintessential NYC experience for a woman, visit the Orchard Corset Center for a fitting as suggested by my cousin who lives in NYC.
Unlike Nordstrom, where you get tape measured when buying a bra, here, you’ll have this Jewish woman look at you topless and grab a bra and properly fit you. She was trained by her mother in law who started the business in the 60s. At the end of the fitting she looks at you and give you this look of approval with your better fitting bra.
It was definitely a unique NYC experience to go for a bra fitting in the LES in a really old timey and hole in the wall store. Don’t even bother to ask for prices you go for the experience.
$ 40 was my price for my properly fitted bra.

Such a wonderful experience. Very small mom & pop shop. Told the lady what I wanted, she looked at me & picked out the proper size right away.
Now I wish I could give them 6 stars because I left my credit card at their store by accident. I called them & they held it for me until I returned the next day. A very nice man answered the phone & helped me out.
I have to admit that at first I was hesitant of coming here because some of the reviewers said how rude the costumer service is here even though it’s an amazing shop but honestly, they were very attentive, cordial & downright, nice. Guess I was lucky or maybe some people are more sensitive. In any case, don’t let those reviews scare you, these folks really know what they are doing & you’re going to get a wonderful product while helping out a mom & pop biz instead of a huge corporation.
Also be aware that this is a Jewish run business so they close for the Sabbath. Meaning that on Friday they close early & do not open on Saturday. Regular hours again on Sunday. I’ll make sure to add this portion to the tips section.

let’s be real– i have ginormous boobs. really. and i needed to get them into a strapless bridesmaid’s dress for a friend’s wedding. really. after trial-​and-​error locally in nj, i figured i’d try orchard corset center to see if everyone was right– i needed nothing short of a miracle.
i called ahead to make sure they’d have something that would work for me, and i was assured they did. since orchard isn’t too far a commute from my NYC office, i stopped in on a day i was working in the city, no appointment necessary.
within 90 seconds of walking in the door, i was topless behind a sheet with a lady just looking at me. that was quick. she looked, poked my side, and walked out. no measuring tape, no discussion, nothing. within a minute she was back and was stuffing me into a lacy black longline bra with steel rods running through it. it was heavy duty. it was also kinda pretty… if you’re into that thing.
it worked. unbelievable. seriously, i was starting to doubt it was possible. i did need a cup size larger for it to be perfect, but they didn’t have it in stock in the color i wanted– so they shipped it to my house and i received it within a few days.
i purchased the longline corset-​bra thing and a pair of better-​than-​spanx that matched… for less than $ 100! i can barely find regular bras that cheap!
i was out of there in 12 minutes.
the only negative for me was they didn’t have any good looking everyday bra options for me. they had a few styles that are way too, umm, old? for me. oh well, can’t have everything.
this place is weird. it’s exactly as the other hundred or so reviewers described: they’re not friendly and chatty, the store’s not pretty to look at and there’s nothing to browse, but it is quick and acurate and relatively cheap… and they won’t sell you anything you don’t need. DO IT.