What is Tightlacing?
True waist training requires at least 12 hours a day in a properly tailored corset made for tightlacing. Yes, it will reform your body, but like a diet it is only as permanent as long as you stick with it. These 12 hours must be when you are most active. Also, in order for your body to adapt properly to the corset’s shape, you must eat, drink, and do your daily routine while comfortably laced. Simply wearing a corset at night during inactive periods is not going to make a figure curvier. For example, if you start a weight-loss diet that allows you to loose 20 pounds, you will continue to keep off the weight as long as you stick the proper nutritional standards needed for your new physique. The same is true with a corset. Yes, some folks (depending on their physique) will loose 4-6 inches at the waist line. But this is only during daily wear of a corset and following a diet that is healthy for their Physique. The results of the waist training will only remain while they are wearing the corset. If they stop wearing the corset for a few days (after about 6-12 months of training) their waist will creep back to a slightly smaller size than what they started out with. The only permanency is the reshaping of the lower ribcage.
Tightlacing is not for those that are looking for a miracle cure (body wraps, electric pulse devices, unorthodox diets) for an unshapely body. Tightlacing will only work for you if you enjoy the feel of the hug of a properly tailored corset around your body. Yes it takes perseverance, but anything in life that is worthwhile is the same way. Most of my clients are like me, dedicated, daily tightlacers.
I’ve heard that corsets can be dangerous. What are the dangers?
I cannot answer that with a simple yes or no. A corset that is poorly designed and/or laced too tightly can cause damage to the back, pinched nerves in the pelvis and legs, abdominal cramps, and so on. A corset that is properly designed (i.e. tailored to the individual) and laced in moderation is safe and in time will provide a shape that is lovely. I have been designing corsets for 15 years, and seriously tightlacing for over a decade. The only problems that I have had is a very mild and temporary pinching of nerves in the right leg. This was due to a poorly designed corset on my part. That was over 10 years ago, and the problem disappeared in a week.