Rule #5: Always have yourself laced in by others.

If you close your corset yourself, you will never obtain a beautiful figure; besides, you won't be strong enough to lace yourself as tight as necessary. Your muscles are all tight if you pull the laces, and thus you cannot get the desired effect of a beautiful figure. Furthermore you cause damage to vitally important organs by lacing in yourself. It is, for example, a very bad habit to fasten the corset laces at the door or at a suitable device and then to pull and thus close the stays jerkily with your full weight. By doing so one can get a small waist, but this is a very uncomfortable way of lacing, as a consequence you won't feel good in it and your body will look somewhat disfigured in it.