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 ...

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Sarah A. Chrisman readily admits she’d far rather live in Victorian times — specifically 1889 — than the modern era. When her similarly historically-focused husband gave her a corset for her 29th ...

Earlier this month, we showed 21st-century lads how to gentrify their wardrobes Victorian-style. Today, it’s the fairer sex’s turn. So ladies, if you’d like to shake things up with a bit of ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Heads have been whipping around at Sarah Chrisman for years now. But for Barbara Walters and her cohosts on the ABC-TV talk show “The View,” this Port Townsend woman was a bit of a ...

Women today breathe a little easier — thanks to a World War I metal shortage. Before then, women squeezed themselves into corsets that molded their figures to fit the Victorian ideal: a voluptuous ...

Etching: "A correct view of the new machine for winding up the ladies" by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket; published c1830. Humorous treatment of new technology, showing a Victorian lady being tightly laced ...