NEWMARKET — Throughout history, women's fashions have ... Constructing Victorian Detail.” Currently, she manages her own company, Schaeffer Arts Costume Exhibition and Care, where she creates ...

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.

The corset is to nudity what foreplay is to ... the pleasure of a better fit was exclusive to women. While the costume appropriate to each sex became increasingly distinct, both benefited equally ...

"Enola Holmes" opens in England, in the year of 1884, as the the women's rights ... looks like a Victorian version of rough-and-tumble jeans. 'He’s very at ease in his costume, so that gave ...

On the day before Woodrow Wilson's inauguration in 1913, 5,000 women ... costume elements worn in the parade. What was fashion like in 1913? Styles of 1913 were well on their way away from ...

Greta Gerwig’s 2019 adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s novel Little Women has been on our ... and the most nonconformist, so her costume doesn’t include a corset, which lends a freedom ...

When you think of a corset ... costumes should be “historically accurate,” or that such an aspiration is even possible, is not what is at stake here. This is an issue of historical fallacy ...