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"Sometimes they come in a fitting for a fashion designer and they put a corset on me and I'm like, ‘Oh, you can go tight,'" she told the publication. "I think if you wear corsetry for long enough, ...

Celebrities such as Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter and the Kardashians are turning to haute couture corsets, rather than weight-loss meds like Ozempic, to shave inches off of their ...

Editor's Note: PBS has partnered with Mercy Street's historical consultants to bring fans the Mercy Street Revealed blog. Anya Jabour, Ph.D., has been teaching and researching the history of women, ...

It's official: corsets have made a comeback. Worn by Billie Eilish on the cover of Vogue and spotted on singers like Rihanna and Dua Lipa, the controversial garment is experiencing a revival thanks to ...

The history of our obsession with tiny waists, from corsets to the Kardashians. This corset was designed around 1851 by Madame Roxy Caplin with minimal, flexible boning to achieve fashionable curves.

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 ...

Julie Lodato O’Day is passionate about Carnival. An avid parade watcher growing up in New Orleans, she joined a marching unit of a popular parading outfit as an adult and relished the opportunity to ...

Corsets were an essential undergarment for Victorian women, which lifted and supported the bosom, created a flat front and provided women a form-fitted figure. But they were notoriously restrictive.

Eagles fan Michele DeMatteo stitched an A.J. Brown jersey into a corset — and the internet's been begging for one ever since. Why it matters: Since posting her handsewn creation to social media last ...