Elizabethan Corset - Finished!

Well, I've finished my Elizabethan Corset. Boned with .5" and .25" spring steel all across the front, and it has a wooden busk in the center. All of the bias binding is sewn on by hand, as are the eyelets. I love the colors of the corset, and it looks very pretty in person.

There is only one problem preventing me from celebrating over the fact that I have actually made a corset, and it is... the damn thing is too big. I've lost only a couple pounds since the pattern was drafted, and even when I was cutting out the fabric I took several inches off to make it tighter. Well, it's still too loose. It doesn't get tight enough in the waist to support my chest; it just flattens it. Part of me wants to just take it in an inch on the side at the tip of the tabs under the armpit... bad idea?