For many women, the word ‘corset’ is synonymous with pain. Even those lucky enough to be born in decades where they weren’t the norm grew up reading books and watching films which portrayed corsets as ...

At the slight age of 16, Chloe* would button herself into a waist training belt before leaving the house. She would wear the corset-style device – a long piece of tight fabric that squashes the torso ...

While waist trainers claim to help you achieve weight loss and an hourglass figure, they don't work. Waist trainers may help you lose weight, but often this is just the temporary loss of water weight.

Clothing pieces designed to cinch the midsection have been around for centuries. You've likely seen everything from rigid corsets with boning to fashion corsets with minimal structure. But recently, ...