experiences with tight lacing. For example, In publishing this and other letters, the editor of The Gentlewoman admonished the writers: There was no shortage of others who condemned mothers and daughters who participated in the practice. For example: Childhood In some cases, mothers started their daughters wearing corsets in early childhood. The New York Times described the practice in its Fashion section.<ref>"The Fashions for Summer" New York Times", (26 June 1881)</ref> An account from a young lady reads: Mothers wrote letters describing their version of the practice. The following, published in the English periodical Queen, is typical. Another letter, in the Boston Globe, is similar: Teenage years Mothers typically put their daughters into serious corsets in their teens or sometimes in the pre-teens. Some were uncertain as to when and how to begin tight lacing. They sought advice in their local newspapers, giving rise to heated discussions. One such exchange took place in the pages of the Toronto Daily Mail, from April to June 1883, in the Saturday section, "Women's Kingdom". A reader signing herself, "Corset", inquired: The next Saturday, "Staylace" offered her experience: A few weeks later, "Staylace" submitted excerpts from her niece's diary from the prior year. Girls would seek relief from their stays at night and mothers would seek to prevent it. One reader, signing herself "Mother", wrote "Kingston" offered her remedy: "Common Sense" offered her own alternative: Other readers took strong exception to these extreme measures. One expressed her indignation, while describing her own daughter's wearing corsets from the age of eleven, but in the 'daytime only': Another objected entirely to corsets until the very end of the teens: Other newspapers carried similar accounts. In fashionable London, tight lacing of teen aged daughters was a serious affair. The New York Times wrote: School In fashionable society, a girl was expected to have a suitably small waist. Girls' schools were preparation for society and some headmistresses treated that attainment as part of the girls' schooling. As the girl was not yet an adult, her opinion was not considered. A reader wrote to the editors of The Science of Health describing her experience. The West Australian printed excerpts from the diary of a school girl describing how figure training was accomplished. How I shall be able to eat and move about I can't think; but Madge O—, who left last term, and who was that size, said you