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If you were talking about neckties, maybe. Loosening social ties doesn't sound natural, at least to me.
Lol, then that's a you problem.
That exact phrase is how it would be used, and has been used, in print, for decades
You can loose, or loosen a knot, or lasso, or if you are rather good with ropes nets and knots, you can actually do that to an entire net, give it more or less slack, grid density.
I guess its just become far less common for people to have practical, hands on experience with knots and ropes... its pretty important if you want to moor a boat to a dock, or make your own fishing net as humans have done for millenia...
Same goes for knitting, weaving, making clothes and garments of all kinds.
Ever loosened a waistband, or tightened one?
Less and less people have actual hands on experience with any of this, so I guess the metaophors/analogies aren't as obvious anymore.
Heck, loose, as a verb, just like that, also basically means 'to throw' or 'to project away from you'.
You loose an arrow, or a javelin.
You let loose a hail of bullets, ie, throw them downrange, away from you.
You loose a dog, to set it free, or perhaps to go run off and chase/attack something.
Which is differenrt from losing a dog, which is when it fails to return from you loosing it.