Instead, she’ll reach for her handmade, mid- to late-18th-century finery: chemise, stays, and all. “I’m in scrubs in the day and a corset and ball gown at night,” she says over the phone ...

This corset dates from the end of the 18th century, around about the 1780s. It was probably made by a professional staymaker. The corset laces together at the back, with no fastening at all at the ...

she quite literally unveiled the piece that was to become both a house signature and enduring icon – an 18th-century-inspired corset decisively styled as outerwear and named ‘Stature of ...

There were lace underpinnings, corsets, ruffled trim, and of course, endless rows of buttons. Fashion from the 18th century is notorious for being painful to wear, from constricting corsets to ...

This corset dates from the end of the 18th century, around about the 1780s. It was probably made by a professional staymaker. The corset laces together at the back, with no fastening at all at the ...