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 ...

When it comes to fashion, it can seem as if the body is meant to fit the design. Nowhere is that more obvious than the corset, the French undergarment invented in the 1500s made to cinch the waist to ...

Ever since corsets became popular in Nigeria, we’ve seen the good, the bad, and the downright unspeakable at the hands of corsets and Nigerian tailors. You know those photos where the waist is ...

The corset is probably the most controversial garment in the entire history of fashion. Worn by women throughout the western world from the late Renaissance into the twentieth century, the corset was ...

Although I have been sewing as a hobby for many years, making and wearing historical clothing was not something I imagined myself doing when I first began researching the history of corsets and hooped ...

Shedding inches is a cinch — with a corset in hand. Yes, those waist-erasing, hourglass figure-forming little numbers are suddenly seen tapering the torsos of Beyoncé, Taylor Swift and the Kardashians ...

In the titular role of Disney’s new live-action version of Cinderella, Lily James plays a beaming, beautiful, fairly passive spin on the fairy tale princess. She somehow has less agency than her ...

When the whistle blew, rows of women set in motion their sewing machines at the Aurora Corset Factory. It’s safe to say that most were wearing what they were manufacturing in the three-story brick ...

International celebs are posting pictures online sporting one. The fad has now extended to women who want to get a slim waistline within a short period of time. While waist cinching might be the ...

Bust enhancers, bust reducers, corsets, and waist control garments - it appears that women have tried every trick in the book, a sometimes very painful book, in their quest for the 'glorious figure of ...