tightlacing

tightlacing
The practice of wearing a tightly-laced corset to modify ones figure and posture.

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  • Tightlacing — A corset reducing the circumference of the waist to 16 inches (41 cm). 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… …   Wikipedia

  • Tightlacing — Mot d origine anglaise, n ayant pas d équivalent en français. Pourrait se traduire très approximativement par la périphrase port d un corset lacé très serré (laçage serré). Le tightlacing est une pratique consistant, par le port constant d un… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Tighlacing — Tightlacing Mot d origine anglaise, n ayant pas d équivalent en français. Pourrait se traduire très approximativement par la périphrase port d un corset lacé très serré (laçage serré). Le tightlacing est une pratique consistant, par le port… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Corset — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Corset (homonymie). Femme défaisant son corset, vers 1870. Un corset, du vieux français cors, lui même dérivé du …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Corset — A drawing of a luxury hourglass corset from 1878, featuring a busk fastening at the front and lacing at the back A corset is a garment worn to hold and shape the torso into a desired shape for aesthetic or medical purposes (either for the… …   Wikipedia

  • Victorian dress reform — During the middle and late Victorian period, various reformers proposed, designed, and wore clothing supposedly more rational and comfortable than the fashions of the time. This was known as the dress reform or rational dress movement. The… …   Wikipedia

  • Corsets — Corset Pour les articles homonymes, voir Corset (homonymie). Femme défaisant son corset, vers 1870. Du vieux français cors , lui même dérivé du latin corpus (corps). Un corset est un sous vêtement …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Tightlacer — A tightlacer is someone who practises daily tightlacing; the wearing of a corset for long periods in order to reduce the natural circumference of the waist. Some persons choose tightlacing for aesthetic reasons. Some do this to improve the figure …   Wikipedia

  • Corsetmaker — Corsetiers cutting out and fitting in the 18th century A corsetmaker is a specialist tailor who makes corsets. Corsetmakers are frequently known by the French equivalent terms corsetier (male) and corsetière (female). Stay maker is an obsolete… …   Wikipedia

  • History of corsets — Woman s corset c. 1730–1740. Silk plain weave with supplementary weft float patterning, stiffened with baleen. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, M.63.24.5.[1] …   Wikipedia

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