With its waist-cinching qualities, the corset stood in opposition to the Victorian ideal of women as mothers. Instead of round, fecund bellies, Victorian women chose to portray themselves with ...

Women have long held a love-hate relationship with the corset. Few fashion items are as bound in controversy as this tight-laced, boned cage popularised in the Victorian era designed to slim the waist ...

“Honestly, I could wear a corset every day of my life,” the 48 ... the series follows a group of young American women who arrive in Britain circa 1870 in search of aristocratic husbands.

In the thick of the Victorian era ... The Gossard maternity corset's slogan promised "Better Babies," as women were convinced that the contraption would provide exercise that was necessary ...

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 ...

In Search of Mina Wylie shines a light on “these rebellious young women who abandoned corsets and restrictive ... who swam against the tide of the Victorian virtues and plunged into the pool ...

Apart from the queen - who was the ideal Victorian woman? She may have resembled Mrs Frances Goodby, the wife of the Reverend J Goodby of Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire, of whom it was said ...