Medical doctors almost uniformly expressed concern that tight lacing was not healthful, there doesn’t appear to be a thoroughly documented death caused by the fashion. In the autumn of 1888, Mrs.

The corset is to nudity what foreplay is to sex. No other garment is so erotic because none has as loaded an effect on the female form. And few garments are so controversial; every century attacks it ...

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Sarah A. Chrisman readily admits she’d far rather live in Victorian times — specifically 1889 — than the modern era. When her similarly historically-focused husband gave her a corset for her 29th ...

The perception that our Victorian ancestors were all prudes is overrated. They knew what was going on behind closed doors. And they invented the ubiquitous in-your-face advertising that surrounds us ...

When thinking about the evolution of corsets, my mind immediately pictures three famous people who have flaunted them in recent years. There's burlesque queen Dita Von Teese, Nicole Kidman in Moulin ...