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They're mixed in with the likes of "How to mesmerize" and "Wasps have stings; or, beware of tight-lacing."
Boing Boing 2008
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Also, we can talk about freedom from corsets if we want, and should thanks to the genius who invented our oh-so-hated bra, but men also wore corsets during the ‘waist-cinching’ era of them, and corsets were generally comfortable outside of tight-lacing high society circles.
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It's a cyber-age variation on Munchausen syndrome that makes old-fashioned tight-lacing and garden-variety female masochism seem wholesome by comparison.
The Shape of Thighs to Come Collins, Amy Fine 2007
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David Kunzle has chosen an awkward moment to write seriously and in detail about corsets and tight-lacing.
A Tight Squeeze Hollander, Anne 1982
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Dr. Mussey, whose "_Lectures on Intemperance_" have so forcibly arrested the attention of the public, asserts that "greater numbers annually die among the female sex, in consequence of tight-lacing, than are destroyed among the other sex by the use of spirituous liquors in the same time."
The Ladies' Vase Polite Manual for Young Ladies An American Lady
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I do assure you, that, its most illustrious masters -- fruitful as they were in tests to try the body -- never invented, imagined, nor would have been able to sustain that torture of tight-lacing which the modern belle steadily inflicts without shrinking, and bears without repining sometimes to her very grave.
The Ladies' Vase Polite Manual for Young Ladies An American Lady
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The waist was too small for a grown person, and could only have been made so by _tight-lacing_.
Object Lessons on the Human Body A Transcript of Lessons Given in the Primary Department of School No. 49, New York City Sarah F. Buckelew
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Those who wear these appliances of tight-lacing often complain that they cannot sit upright without them -- are sometimes, indeed, compelled to wear them during all the twenty-four hours; a fact which proves to what extent such articles weaken the muscles of the trunk.
Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis
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-- "Because tight-lacing crowds the ribs against the lungs, so that the lungs cannot move freely."
Object Lessons on the Human Body A Transcript of Lessons Given in the Primary Department of School No. 49, New York City Sarah F. Buckelew
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Few circumstances are more injurious to beauty than the constrained movement, suffused complexion, and labored respiration that betray tight-lacing.
The Ladies' Vase Polite Manual for Young Ladies An American Lady
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