They might be a fetching component of your favourite 18th-century period drama, but most women would agree that corsets should remain in the costume department, rather than spilling over into real ...

Women in the Victorian era wore corsets well into pregnancy, and even so-called maternity corsets did much to alter the position of the reproductive organs and even hide the appearance of pregnancy.

The “90210” actress isn’t the first person to plug postpartum corsets on social media. But women’s health experts are cautious about recommending them.

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 ...

Many women are lacing up corsets in order to lose weight and get a more shapely figure.

HOW TO PUT ON CORSETS; Practical Demonstration at Convention of Dressmakers. Stout, Little, Elderly Woman and Two Girls Posed for the Occasion of Building-Up Process. March 7, 1903 The New York ...

On the day before Woodrow Wilson's inauguration in 1913, 5,000 women marched up Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., demanding the vote. In addition to banners and programs, the women used ...

An anthropologist has found evidence on Victorian skeletons that calls into question the longstanding assumption that corseting was detrimental to women's health.

With the 1908 volume of his treatise Le Corset, Dr. Ludovic O’Followell hoped to make clear the detrimental effects the then-current corset designs had on women’s health. To that end, he took ...