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In the News (Thu 16 Feb 12)

  
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Philosophy: Tightlacing advocates felt that reports of the damage done to women's health were greatly exaggerated, and was the work of old-fashioned, misogynistic doctors.
Tightlacing critics, many of them feminists, felt just the opposite.
Tightlacing survives today as a bondage fetish but not much else.
web.nwe.ufl.edu /~kchancey/corsettight.html   (398 words)

  
  Korsetter » Arkiv » Tightlacing - speciell teknik för korsetter
Tightlacing som en form av kroppsmodifikation kräver stor hängivenhet.
Hälsoproblem relaterade till tightlacing är i det närmaste obefintliga om du gör det korrekt (dvs.
16:18 i korsetter, smalare midja, midjemått, tightlacer, korsetter som fetish, bdsm, speciella korsetter, goth, skador, om korsetter.
www.korsetter.eu /2007/04/24/tightlacing-speciell-teknik-for-korsetter   (378 words)

  
 Wasp Creations Custom Corsetry Updated: 7-9-07
Amy Crowder, tightlacer and corset maker, creates the finest corsets for daily tightlacing, fetish and elegant occasions.
Corset styles range from short active models for high mobility, to daily tightlacing, to highly restrictive knee-length for discipline and bondage play.
About Wasp Creations Page first to become acquainted with Amy's philosophies toward proper corsetry and tightlacing.
www.waspcreations.com   (597 words)

  
  Tightlacing - SM201
Tightlacing (also called corset training and waist training) is the practice of wearing a tightly-laced corset to achieve extreme modifications to the figure and posture and experience the sensations of a very tight corset.
Tightlacers typically wear a corset for at least 12 hours a day, every day, when they are most active, although some tightlacers wear corsets for up to 23 hours a day, taking the corset off only in order to bathe.
The length of time it will take a tightlacer to get used to this reduction will vary on his or her physiology; a large amount of fat on the torso and strong abdominal muscles will mean that it takes longer for the tightlacer to wear their corset laced closed at the back.
www.backdrop.net /sm201/index.php?title=Tightlacing   (1714 words)

  
  Tightlacing
Tightlacing (also called corset training and waist training) is the practice of wearing a tightly-laced corset to achieve extreme modifications to the figure and posture.
Tightlacing has its roots in the nineteenth century, when improvements in technology allowed the mass manufacture of corsets that were stronger than ever before.
Tightlacers (as people who practice tightlacing are called) have to wear a corset for at least 12 hours a day every day, when they are most active.
www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/t/ti/tightlacing.html   (659 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Tightlacing   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Tightlacing (also called corset training and waist training) is the practice of wearing a tightly-laced corset to achieve extreme modifications to the figure and posture and experience the sensations of a very tight corset.
Tightlacers typically wear a corset for at least 12 hours a day, every day, when they are most active, although some tightlacers wear corsets for up to 23 hours a day, taking the corset off only in order to bathe.
The length of time it will take a tightlacer to get used to this reduction will vary on his or her physiology; a large amount of fat on the torso and strong abdominal muscles will mean that it takes longer for the tightlacer to wear their corset laced closed at the back.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Tightlacing   (3338 words)

  
 Frequently Asked Questions
In short, Tightlacing is the act of wearing a comfortably laced corset, 12-14 hours a day, seven days a week.
Tightlacing is not for those that are looking for a miracle cure (body wraps, electric pulse devices, unorthodox diets) for an unshapely body.
Yes, some people loose weight while tightlacing, but that is due to the fact that they are more aware of their body, and what they put in it.
www.waspcreations.com /faq.htm   (2661 words)

  
 "Society Figure" by Artistic Apprentice Alyson Roux (Backstage magazine, 2004-2005 Vol. 3) | Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Tightlacing, the practice of applying corsetry to achieve as small a waist as possible, became the norm during the mid to late 1800s.
The result was a woman who was incapable of sitting or standing without the use of her corset, as the abdominal muscles and organs were deformed and women uncorseted were described as “appearing to snap in half.” In time, doctors advised against tightlacing, but to little avail.
This type of corset was marketed as a cure for tightlacing, but proved to be even more injurious because of its unnatural configuration, and disappeared by the beginning of the first World War.
www.steppenwolf.org /backstage/article.aspx?id=54   (826 words)

  
 tightlacing definition for the clothing industry
Tightlacing (also called corset training and waist training) is the practice of wearing a tightly-laced
Due to the lower portion of the lungs being used less there is often a mucosal build-up there; a slight and persistent cough is the sign of the body trying to clear this (and might also have led to the Victorian hypothesis that corsets caused tuberculosis).
The point where the lobe and liver connect can be quite thin, and again, this might have led to one of the Victorian myths about tightlacing: that a tightlacer can wear her corset so tight that it "cuts" her liver in half.
www.apparelsearch.com /definitions/Miscellaneous/tightlacing.htm   (1812 words)

  
 WASP WAISTS - A Study of Tightlacing in the 19th Century and its Motives
Another theory is that tightlacing was symbolic of the rigid moral attitude of the times, and this seems to be coming closer to the truth.
Those who tightlaced to extremes were more likely to be doing so conscious, of its effect on them, although sex was such a taboo subject in those days that they would not have described it in that way, even to themselves.
For example, that tightlacing was beneficial 'as it released the blood from an inactive locality and le it free to be used in the brain and elsewhere'.
www.corsets.de /WASP_WAISTS__A_Study_of_Tightlacing.php   (6285 words)

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