Lacey is busting with excitement for her first trip to France. She’ll be with her friend Magda Rousseau, corset creator for D.C.’s wealthiest (and kinkiest) citizens. And—best of all—the trip’s on her
Think of a corset as a blank canvas.Linda Sparks' The Basics of Corset Building: A Handbook for Beginners is a comprehensive guide to building your first corset, including:Section One: Tools and Mater
Tom Angleberger’s farcical middle-grade mystery begins when M’Lady Luggertuck loosens her corset (it has never been loosened before!), thereby setting off a chain of events in which all the strict rul
A woman describes her experience wearing a Victorian corset for an entire year and how it changed her body and her view of the garment from being a symbol of female oppression to one of empowerment. 1
Why, at a time when women's liberation was gaining force and momentum, did the corset become more cinched and restricting than at any time during the entire preceding century? Why was bra burning a po
Based on a true event: the strike of the Kalamazoo corset workers in 1912.Rose Morrison's comfortable life as a banker's wife is upended when her husband suddenly dies. His secret and formidable debts
It was in 1914 that Mary Phelps Jacob set women free-from the prison of the corset. With a little help from her lady's maid, this ingenious New York socialite stitched together two handkerchiefs and
"The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark."As an English corset-maker's son, Thomas Paine was expected to spend his life sewing women's underwear. But as a teenager, Thomas dared to change
Fanny Bullock Workman was a complicated and restless woman who defied the rigid Victorian morals she found as restrictive as a corset. With her frizzy brown hair tucked under a topee, Workman was a fo
In this second volume of Stays and Corsets, Mandy Barrington continues to create historical patterns for a modern body shape. This book contains all new corset patterns with a range of silhouettes tha