The event is part fashion show, social history lesson, conceptual-performance/lecture as well as Victorian striptease in which audience volunteers help lace Darlin’s corset and hook other garments.

Many great inventions came out of the Victorian era, from the photograph to the electric lightbulb. The elastic opera hat and the anti-cholera belt, however, are not among their illustrious numbers.

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — The Hunter House Victorian Museum bares all in their latest exhibit — sort of. “From Corsets to Crinoline: Unmentionables and the Road to Women’s Suffr… ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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.

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.