About Us

If I were to say to you that we will make corsets, some of the most sophisticated garments ever devised, and make them tactical,
custom-fitted to the exacting measurements of every beautiful body from the petite to the voluptuous, incorporating MILSPEC construction techniques never before applied to fashion, rendering laces and purses obsolete with the advent of quick-releasable buckles and PALS webbing enabling an infinite variety of attachable modular accessory pouches, sewing to exacting quality standards of both beauty and toughness, shipping these custom creations for not just a few customers but to clothe the thousands of ladies and gentlemen clamoring to be corset clad, and do all this now so that our customers can be so equipped and readied to survive the onset of any and all multi-eschatonic apocalypsii in order to live long enough to obtain Moravec Transfer immortality and explore outer space forever, and make pink ones, then we must be bold.

Company Profile

Headquarters: San Francisco Bay Area

Contact: tacticalcorsets@gmail.com

Phone: 415-281-7257 (PALS)

Team:

Founder: Alex Peake, CEO

PR: Amanda Coolong, CCO

Production: Ariel Amend-All, CPO

Opened For Business: December 2009

The Tactical Corsets Story

Tactical Corsets went from an idea I had to a bootstrapped maker startup labor of love. I had the idea on the drawing board over a year before I produced the first prototype with the help of my friends and the response was immediate and enthusiastic. It turned out that the Internets shared my passion for this tough love technology with an all-consuming interest that darkens the corners of your visionand it demanded full scale production.

The Mindshare Pact

I had a design in my mind for over a year and a convincingly photoshopped concept photo of how it would look. Then I ran into Amanda Coolong at Mindshare.LA and when I heard she was studying burlesque I decided to show her. The next thing we knew, we were plotting to make the corset a reality and present it with burlesque flair.  

The Barcamp Introduction

A week later we met up, sewed the first prototype till the wee hours of the morning and the very next day we presented the Tactical Corset for the first time at Barcamp LA.

Here's us at Mindshare and Barcamp before and after: 

Setting Up Shop In The Bay

I recently moved to the San Francisco Bay Area and set up shop in Oakland.