From squashed ribs and hearts to displaced spleens, X-Rays of Victorian women wearing waist-clinching corsets show the discomfort they endured in the name of 'beauty'. Included in Le Corset, a tome ...

The ideal of what a woman's body should look like has changed dramatically over time and varies by culture. One of the most well-known historical attempts at changing a woman's body shape -- corseting ...

With the 1908 volume of his treatise Le Corset, Dr. Ludovic O’Followell hoped to make clear the detrimental effects the then-current corset designs had on women’s health. To that end, he took X-ray ...

Though she is probably the world’s foremost dealer in vintage lingerie, Illisa Goldman doesn’t sell anything with tassles. She doesn’t even like being asked about them. “Tassels? What do you think, ...

The 55-year-old icon shared a behind-the-scenes image from her latest film, Kiss of the Spider Woman, serving the ultimate ...

On the day before Woodrow Wilson's inauguration in 1913, 5,000 women marched up Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., demanding the vote. In addition to banners and programs, the women used their ...

A woman has decided to ditch modern clothing in favour of wearing 19th century fashion after falling in love with vintage styles through historical re-enactments. Mila Povoroznyuk, 29, from Vinnitsa, ...

Kardashian and her castmates from the Hulu legal show hit up the Parisian hot spot Crazy Horse cabaret to ring in her 45th ...