Corset-wearing was common in the 18th and 19th centuries across Europe and across different socioeconomic classes. "Women wore corsets to shape their bodies away from nature and toward a more ...

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 ...

She was inspired by the corset to delve deeper into wearing women's fashions from the Victorian age, and began to dress that way exclusively. These days, she and her husband, Gabriel, are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...