Her memoir, “Victorian Secrets: What a Corset Taught Me about the Past, the Present, and Myself,” is a paean to both the joys of corset wearing and a feisty defense of a bygone era.

And years on from the HBO show’s 2015 finale, Hendricks remains an enduring emblem of girdled glamour and Sixties sass. The Victorian corsets worn by her latest character, then, were no sweat.

IN Victorian times, women were often the victims of stiff corsets and even stiffer attitudes from men. By Cyril Dixon 19:48, Wed, May 20, 2015 | UPDATED: 21:06, Wed, May 20, 2015 Bookmark BPNS ...

Many great inventions came out of the Victorian era, from the photograph to the electric lightbulb. The elastic opera hat and the anti-cholera belt, however, are not among their illustrious numbers.

In a rising trend, alpha males are now rocking corsets, an item of clothing that was never associated with men. It was only recently model Leonardo Hanna Azrak made jaws drop at a red carpet event ...

Sarah Chrisman never wanted to wear a corset, but after her husband gave her one for her 29th birthday, she says the old-fashioned undergarment changed her life."It was actually a moment of great ...