By sporting a tightly-laced corset to get extended periods’a practice called tightlacingmen in addition to women can be able to tolerate serious waist constriction as well as reduce their own natural midsection size. Tightlacers usually target 40 that will 43 centimetres (16 to 17 inch) waists. The actual Guinness E-book of Planet Records details two instances of ladies reducing in order to 15 in . waists: Ethel Granger along with Cathie Jung. Alternative women, for instance Polaire, also claim to have achieved this kind of reductions.