In the 1870s, many female tourists to Manhattan sought out the city's most curious boutiques—underwear stores that sold what was called “ladies' hygienic underdress.” “Through sheer weariness they may ...

From the organ-crushing, bust-enhancing corsets of the mid- to late 1700s to the butt-boosting bustles of the late 1800s to the curve-flattening girdles of the 1920s and ’30s, ladies’ undergarments ...

WOODBURY — Imagine walking into a Victoria’s Secret in the early 1800s. Then, as you pass mannequins dressed in bloomers, camisoles and impossibly thin corsets – some so thin they barely fit on the ...

An exhibition that shows how women’s undergarments and clothing became more practical in the late 1800s and early 1900s as women demanded the right to vote and became more active outside of the home.

The Victorian Era corset is a heavy duty clothing apparatus, capable of constricting a person's waist down to a dainty 17 inches. A slim midsection and an hourglass figure were all the rage in 19th ...

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Silk dresses, corsets, ankle-length skirts, button-up shirts, puffy-sleeved tops, and blazers are modern examples of how there are bits and pieces of late 1800s fashion still prevalent in modern ...