I try to keep them straight,” says Sarah, 35, a tall woman whose regal posture is due to the corset she wears 24 hours a day. Her pale blonde hair piled atop her head, she wears a high-collared ...

Medina Sun Medina woman offers lessons from Victorian era Published: Mar. 19, 2010, 2:12 p.m. By Jennifer Karpus, Sun News ...

PORT TOWNSEND — When Pippa Mills used to visit Port Townsend, she hoped to catch a glimpse of the woman bicycling about town in Victorian garb, corset and all. “What an extraordinary woman,” Mills ...

The corset stands at the center of the play (and the promotional posters) as a familiar symbol of the beauty standards, restrictions, and sexualization of women in the era.

The Victorian Era corset is a heavy duty clothing apparatus, capable of constricting a person's waist down to a dainty 17 inches. A slim midsection and an hourglass figure were all the rage in 19th ...

The Victorian corsets worn by her latest character, then, were no sweat. “Honestly, I could wear a corset every day of my life,” the 48-year-old laughs over a video call she joined as ...

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Entrepreneur and fashion designer Anna Taylor is trying to bring back the corset -- not to revive Victorian lingerie but to give women a place to carry their handguns.

It takes the audience time traveling to an earlier era, when women were bound by corsets and Victorian rules of propriety and morality. The play runs through Feb. 16.