This corset was made as part of my college fashion diploma that I did between secondary school and uni. It doesn't fit great - I've never had to even touch the laces since first doing them up as tight as possible - but I know exactly why. I didn't take the extra width of the zip into account when switching the pattern from a busk-front to a zip-front. The different colour of the zip compared to the organdie fashion layer over the black coutil also makes how some corsets sit slightly skewed on me more obvious. At least, I think it's to do with me - it happens with all my underbusts, which are all symmetrical in and of themselves, though I haven't really worn any of the overbusts long enough to know if it'd happen to them too. It's a minor thing I've noticed, and although I probably could make an asymmetrical pattern that would make the centre front seam perfectly vertical, that seems like a lot of effort for barely any effect.
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Oh, other fun things about this corset! I made a matching skirt to go with it, which you can see in the pictures below this paragraph. And originally, the tentacles weren't going to be wired and sort of dangling like they ended up, they were gonna be wrapped around to the front, almost like how a ribbon corset works, but that made everything bulky which IMO defeated the point of making a corset. I might still see if I can find a way to do something like that though, it's an idea I've carried for years now.