By the early 2010s, the bodycon era was in full swing, fueling a need for tight, smoothing undergarments that create the ...

Woman fainting from a tight corset is now a modern myth. Historians now reveal that for most women, the corset was simply practical, everyday wear, not an instrument of torture.

PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. — The dream of the 1890s is alive here. In Sarah and Gabriel Chrisman's Victorian home, there are three high-wheel bicycles and a tricycle, a Perfection kerosene heater, an icebox ...

Sarah Chrisman has been wearing a corset every day and night for over four years. Chrisman, author of the book “Victorian Secrets: What a Corset Taught Me about the Past, the Present, and Myself” ...

It’s easy to romanticize the past, especially the Victorian era. It’s been given so much Hollywood gilding in films such as “The Portrait of a Lady” and “The Age of Innocence,” depicting it as a time ...

Loew usually averages 20 programs a year, with around seven of them being about hats. Her upcoming program will be about hair work. Victorian women were known for their time spent on creating artistic ...

WYOMING, Mich. – Wendy Batchelder is a Victorian woman. She appears at nursing homes, bridal parties, youth groups, and libraries on what it was like to live and dress in the 1800s. "I learned it from ...