The Victorian Era corset is a heavy duty clothing apparatus, capable of constricting a person's waist down to a dainty 17 inches. A slim midsection and an hourglass figure were all the rage in 19th ...

In the 1870s, many female tourists to Manhattan sought out the city's most curious boutiques—underwear stores that sold what was called “ladies' hygienic underdress.” “Through sheer weariness they may ...

Retailer Mothercare has been slammed for promoting $115 corsets to women who've just given birth - without warning of the health risks. The mom and baby-centric shop has said it will now review the ...

The history of our obsession with tiny waists, from corsets to the Kardashians. This corset was designed around 1851 by Madame Roxy Caplin with minimal, flexible boning to achieve fashionable curves.

Celebrities such as Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter and the Kardashians are turning to haute couture corsets, rather than weight-loss meds like Ozempic, to shave inches off of their ...

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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. "I don't ...