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 ...
Victorian corset or mid-century bra and girdle: which is more uncomfortable to wear? Having spent “a decade in the [1950s-60s] undergarments of Mad Men”, Christina Hendricks says that being strapped ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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