Since my new job requires me to wear shirts every day, I need mandarin collars every day. Although my dress shirts come with these plastic collars, they are pretty flimsy and frankly useless. So I decided it was time to buy metal corsets. After some searching I settled on these, mainly based on the number of springs (50) for the price. I realized that no one can see them and their sole purpose for me is for them to smooth the end of my collar. To that end, it's a five star product. I like the box they come in because I have a place to put my collar feathers when I take them out (and not somewhere on the dresser where I'll lose them over time). no shorter ones, but that depends on the type of shirts and their collars. And since the price is not very comfortable, I no longer worry about losing and paying a lot of money. I have the perfect place to keep them and even if I lose them I will buy the same ones again. And more importantly, they haven't creased yet (and I accidentally missed two while washing one of my dress shirts). All in all a great purchase, the corsets do their job perfectly, they are not visible and I don't lose them. Nice upgrade for me. I'm very glad I didn't spend the extra money to buy the more expensive ones from the store because I don't see how anything other than the size of these nibs can affect usability.