Although petite women are often able to get down to a smaller waist in absolute numbers, women with more fat are typically able to reduce their waists by a larger percentage. Comfort īy wearing a tightly-laced corset for extended periods, known as tightlacing or waist training, men and women can learn to tolerate extreme waist constriction and eventually reduce their natural waist size. The type of corset and bodice lacing became a refined mark of class women who could not afford servants often wore front-laced bodices. Self-lacing may be very difficult where the aim is extreme waist reduction (see below). (If the corset is worn snugly, this method will damage the busk if the lacing is not significantly loosened beforehand). If the corset was worn loosely, it was possible to leave the lacing as adjusted and take the corset on and off using the front opening. However, Victorian corsets also had a buttoned or hooked front opening called a busk. In the Victorian heyday of corsets, a well-to-do woman's corset laces would be tightened by her maid, and a gentleman's by his valet. Depending on the desired effect and time period, corsets can be laced from the top down, from the bottom up, or both up from the bottom and down from the top, using two laces that meet in the middle. Tightening or loosening the lacing produces corresponding changes in the firmness of the corset. Corsets are held together by lacing, usually (though not always) at the back.
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