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 ...

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 ...

Women’s clothing went through an interesting transition in the 1890s. Big changes took place in how the clothes were made, bought and worn. Fashions also went from restricting to freeing the women who ...

The ideal of what a woman's body should look like has changed dramatically over time and varies by culture. One of the most well-known historical attempts at changing a woman's body shape -- corseting ...