They say beauty is pain, but for some Victorian women, beauty was death. During the mid-19th century, many fashionable women ...

My husband and I study history, specifically the late Victorian era of the 1880s and '90s. ... It's hard to say who started it. I was the first to start wearing Victorian clothes, ...

Fashion designers were in a romantic — and reflective — mood when they unveiled their Spring 2016 collections, many of which contained elements of Victorian fashion-like bustiers, corsets ...

Because corsets had fallen out of fashion, it was a convenient scapegoat. It’s easy to make something foreign into a demon. In the book, people come up and scold you for wearing a corset .

In the Victorian era, pregnancy was cloaked in secrecy, with fashion used to hide growing bellies beneath corsets, layers, and modest silhouettes.

Decked out in voluminous Victorian-style dresses, complete with horn-shaped headgear, the Herero ladies of Namibia have held on tight to a piece of 19th century history.

WHEN Linda Payne first donned some Victorian clothes she could not have predicted that it would eventually land her a role in a Hollywood blockbuster. Linda, who is a founding member of a ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Stepping over the threshold of the Rothschild House is like stepping into the past. Built in 1868 by a local merchant, the Washington State Parks-owned house — now a museum — remains ...