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
In 1897 England, sixteen-year-old Finley Jayne has no one?except the "thing" inside herWhen a young lord tries to take advantage of Finley, she fights back. And wins. But no normal Victorian girl has
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
