Medical doctors almost uniformly expressed concern that tight lacing was not healthful, there doesn’t appear to be a thoroughly documented death caused by the fashion. In the autumn of 1888, Mrs.

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 ...

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When thinking about the evolution of corsets, my mind immediately pictures three famous people who have flaunted them in recent years. There's burlesque queen Dita Von Teese, Nicole Kidman in Moulin ...