By the early 2010s, the bodycon era was in full swing, fueling a need for tight, smoothing undergarments that create the ...

PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. — The dream of the 1890s is alive here. In Sarah and Gabriel Chrisman's Victorian home, there are three high-wheel bicycles and a tricycle, a Perfection kerosene heater, an icebox ...

How odd that a single article of clothing could be experienced as a sign of middle-class superiority, an emblem of eroticism, a medically necessary support garment and a device for stemming childhood ...

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 Suffrage” highlights the change ...

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Where elegance meets sultry, fashionistas find the corset. The timeless wardrobe staple, which compliments the bust and waistline, is an edgier take on the more romantic renditions of regency– or ...

Victorian corset or mid-century bra and girdle: which is more uncomfortable to wear? Having spent “a decade in the [1950s-60s] undergarments of Mad Men”, Christina Hendricks says that being strapped ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Heads have been whipping around at Sarah Chrisman for years now. But for Barbara Walters and her cohosts on the ABC-TV talk show “The View,” this Port Townsend woman was a bit of a ...

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 ...

The dream of the 1890s is alive here. In Sarah and Gabriel Chrisman’s Victorian home, there are three high-wheel bicycles and a tricycle, a Perfection kerosene heater, an icebox, numerous paraffin oil ...