User:Haabet/Tightlacing rewrite

This page was created because of the difficulties with the Tightlacing page. I wanted to rewrite that page; hopefully it will be more organized and agreeable to everyone. Feel free to work on this page, and leave feedback in the talk section.

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Tightlacing (also called corset training and waist training) is the practice of wearing a tightly-laced corset to achieve extreme body modifications to the figure and posture. Those who practice tightlacing are called tightlacers. And the particular corsets are called training corset.

The biologically side of Tightlacing

The two types of corset and stay

	Narrow chest	Broad chest
Types of corset or stays:	overbust only	Underbust in start
pressure up:	sternum (+lowerest ribs)	all of chest
pressure down:	sides of chest	No
Damages:	Many, serious	few, insignificant
Manufacture:	Easy	Komplex

She is press flat, and the liver deformed. 1904 She is not normal but, have a opposite corseted form. Natural the lower ribs drooped, but her rips go up. 1904 The one woman is seriously Tightlaced, but the second woman is also a formed by corset, but by in another shape. 1779 File:Normal corset.png Normal (bad) Corset. She have normal lowest ribs. The ribs down in the top of the corset File:Straight front.png Straight-Fronted, Edwardian, (Transitional "S-Shape"), corset. She have normal lowest ribs. The ribs follow the top of the corset File:Corset Skeleton.jpg

Tightlacing by Broad chest How can a tightlacer survive the intensity body modification?! The answer: When a woman is pregnant, the belly fill the body, and all entrails have escape into the chest. And the chest expand by the pressure from the big belly. If a Tightlacing is healthy, it is close to the natural pregnancy. But A tight lace by shoulder blades will press the ribs down, so a corset Tightlacing by Broad chest is with difficulty to make. Tightlacing by Broad chest have two type. By shoulders or by hip.

Tightlacing by Broad chest by shoulders Shoulder-brace Corset. 1887 Patent 1887

Tightlacing by Broad chest by hip When the lace been tighted, the chest been pressed up. 1907 Patent 1907 When the flap been tighted, the chest been pressed up. 1898

Tightlacing by Narrow chest It is very easy to make a corset, which compress the chest. Because the chest is a conical and compressed, the entrails been pressed down, and they are not construct to a press down.

Link http://users.chariot.net.au/~posture/PostureTheoryExamination.html#anchor23462

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