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 ...

For more than 50 years, American women have cast offconstrictive undergarments, which feminists have long criticized as symbols of repression. But for one Seattle resident, embracing the corset in the ...

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 ...

Think Spanx are uncomfortable? Not compared to this. X-ray images from the early 20th century illustrate what women were willing to endure in the name of fashion: namely, squashed rib cages and ...

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 ...

Fashion historian Laura Fitzachary explores why the corset is once again having a moment in fashion, and its long history in ...

ollowing last year’s award-winning The Silent Companion, Laura Purcell returns with enthralling gothic chiller The Corset. Set in Victorian England, just like its predecessor, it brazenly tells the ...

From Vivienne Westwood’s Victorian corsetry to Calvin Klein’s bias-cut slips, lingerie has always had a place on the runway. And while it has a reputation for pandering to male fantasy, lingerie has ...

The corset doesn't have the best reputation in fashion history, but unlike the dangerous versions of the 18th and 19th centuries, the trend is back this year and more wearable than ever. With t-shirt ...