In the titular role of Disney’s new live-action version of Cinderella, Lily James plays a beaming, beautiful, fairly passive spin on the fairy tale princess. She somehow has less agency than her ...

When it comes to fashion, it can seem as if the body is meant to fit the design. Nowhere is that more obvious than the corset, the French undergarment invented in the 1500s made to cinch the waist to ...

Scarlett O’Hara symbolized in fiction what many real women in history suffered for beauty. In a memorable opening scene from “Gone With the Wind,” the young heroine held onto a bedpost while a servant ...

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LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Entrepreneur and fashion designer Anna Taylor is trying to bring back the corset -- not to revive Victorian lingerie but to give women a place to carry their handguns. "I don't ...

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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 ...

WEST HILLS (CBSLA.com) — Many women are lacing up corsets in order to lose weight and get a more shapely figure. Karilyn Gonzales, of Whittier, told CBS2's Lisa Sigell that she's a believer in what ...

Discover how a 15th century brassiere challenges the history of undergarments and reshapes our understanding of medieval lingerie. Until the modern invention of the brassiere with cups, women had to ...