Gender fluidity in high fashion is nothing new, although it’s been particularly prominent in recent collections. But as the avant-garde filters down into the culture — and street-level culture creeps ...
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 ...
“Honestly, I could wear a corset every day of my life,” the 48-year-old laughs over a video call she joined as “Christina’s iPhone”. She’s in frosty Ireland on location for Chris O’Dowd’s comedy-drama ...
By the early 2010s, the bodycon era was in full swing, fueling a need for tight, smoothing undergarments that create the ...
Sarah A. Chrisman readily admits she’d far rather live in Victorian times — specifically 1889 — than the modern era. When her similarly historically-focused husband gave her a corset for her 29th ...
Rather than extra-tight corsets, McGirr included looser variations of the Victorian-era detail on tops and full-length ...
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 ...
‘The goth girl lives on – she just changed her lipstick’ (Getty Images for IMDb) The subject of ladies is at the forefront of Hendricks’ latest project The Buccaneers on Apple TV+. Based on an ...