The corset may conjure up images of a busty Nancy singing in a dusty Victorian beer house, or Marie Antoinette telling the poor to eat cake. Despite this historical baggage, corsets have been ...

With the 1908 volume of his treatise Le Corset, Dr. Ludovic O’Followell hoped to make clear the detrimental effects the then-current corset designs had on women’s health. To that end, he took ...

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 ...

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

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.

From Victorian corsets to contemporary debates over skorts, hijabs and bikini bottoms, what women wear when they compete has always been about more than sporting performance – a microcosm of ...

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.

After centuries of women (and some men) wearing corsets to support and shape the body, Victorian men taught us to hate corsets. Corset-related health issues were a myth constructed by doctors to ...