With help from the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center and a master seamstress, guests at the museum will have a chance Saturday to make their own Victorian chemise. A chemise historically was ...

Editor's Note: PBS has partnered with Mercy Street's historical consultants to bring fans the Mercy Street Revealed blog. Anya Jabour, Ph.D., has been teaching and researching the history of women, ...

The corset is having a moment again. From Wuthering Heights to fashion week, its return raises uneasy questions about power.

I have always loved corsets. I love their drama, their discipline, and the way they pull posture and presence into one sharp silhouette. And yet, whenever I lace one up, I pause. Because beneath the ...

Design by Iris Ding. Buy this photo. In an interview with Bustle, Sarah Woodyard, a milliner at Colonial Williamsburg, said that there are benefits to wearing a stay. “That back support really helps ...