Smaller Waist yet really comfortable

Information about corsets from a modern day perspective.

Smaller Waist yet really comfortable

If you wear a tightly-laced corset for a long time also known as tightlacing you can learn to withstand an extreme difference in waist size and make your natural waist size smaller.

The goal of tightlacers is about a 40 to 43 centimetres (16 to 17 inch) waist.

The Guinness Book of World Records records two instances of women reducing to 15 inch waists: Ethel Granger and Cathie Jung.

These are extreme examples.

Corsets were and are usually designed for support, with freedom of body movement an important consideration in their design.

Corsets and Corset Comfort

Moderate corset lacing is not incompatible with vigorous activity.

In fact, during the late nineteenth century, when corset wearing was common, there were sport corsets specifically designed to wear while bicycling, playing tennis, or horseback riding, as well as for maternity wear.

A lot of people now think that wearing a corset is really uncomfortable and wearing them restricts womens' lives.

However, these writings were most apt to protest against the misuse of corsets for tightlacin, they were less vehement against corsets per se.

A lot of reformers recommended "Emancipation bodices",which were only tight vests like corsets without boning.

The people who are wearing corsets today will testify that it can be comforable to wear a corset.

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