Jezebel: Corsets

Everything You Know About Corsets Is False

Lisa Hix — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:00:00 EST

The corset has a bad reputation. And unfairly so, according to Valerie Steele, director and chief curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, who says this undergarment of centuries past is not nearly as evil or confining as modern folks have come to believe. More »

Wait, Why Did We Ever Stop Wearing Corsets?

Sadie Stein — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:30:00 EDT

"A series of magnets scientifically arranged form minute batteries, recharging the blood with magnetism, without which life cannot exist, furnishing a wonderful remedy for Nervousness, General Debility, Indigestion, Rheumatism and Paralysis, the effect being exhilarating to the Wearer." [Vintage_Ads] More »

It's A Cinch

Sadie Stein — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:40:00 EST

Check out this video on corset-wearers — specifically, one guy, who says, "If you're a couple and you're both wearing a corset, it's pretty amazing." For them, perhaps. [AOL] More »

Dear Diane: Sorry, But You Can't Claim To "Show The Soul Of A Woman" On The Same Day You Sue Target

Jennifer — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:30:00 EST

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"With so many magazine images that are so completely retouched, we've gone in the opposite direction, showing the soul of a woman." That's artist Francois-Marie Banier, on this Diane von Furstenberg ad starring Natalia Vodianova. Which makes us wonder, if that is the "opposite direction" of the retouching trend, we sort of wonder what that trend would look like "taken to its hyperbolic extreme." [Vogue UK]