Talk:Training corset

The content of this article is problematic - it is largely incorrect.

"Training corset is a type of rigid used by the first Tightlacing"

Any style of corset can be used for training, in the sense of tightlacing and body modification. The two corsets depicted here are for different purposes.

• The advertisement is for corsets for girls (as evidenced by the range of ages listed under the illustration), in which the shoulder straps are to keep the corset positioned correctly, and possibly to ensure 'corect' posture (that is, with back straight and shoulders square).
• I can guess at the purpose of the corset in the other illustration: shoulder straps were sometimes added to corsets for women with larger busts, to achieve better shape and support. I do know that the long cross-over shoulder straps would have a negligible effect on the size and shape of the waist - the waist shape was given by the corset's rigid boning.

The tighting of the waist is, simple because muscles which been pressured and make passive disappear after a year.

Muscles have very little to do with tightlacing - the weakening and wasting (although not "disappearance") of muscles is a secondary effect of wearing a corset. The diminishing size of the waist chiefly requires the lower ribs (particularly the lowest two, which are known as 'floating ribs') to be squeezed closer together

The problem is the ribs which slope down and must raised up.

Ribs do not slope downwards, and there is no need to raise them up in tightlacing. This is a nonsense statement.

Added to these gross inaccuracies, the article is poorly written. I am going to make some changes to improve all this! Katherine Shaw 11:43, Sep 2, 2004 (UTC)