The early 1800s saw the rise of the Regency corset, a lighter and more comfortable undergarment made with cotton cording instead of rigid boning. This allowed women more freedom of mobility ...

Click through to see the complete evolution—starting with the crazy corsets of the early 1800s through to the underwear-as-outerwear motifs of today. In another example of hard-to-sit-in ...

Also known as baleen, whalebone is not a bone at all ... known as “stays.” The word corset was not used in its modern sense until the early 1800s, when corsetry—and the pronounced hourglass ...

Silk dresses, corsets, ankle-length skirts, button-up shirts, puffy-sleeved tops, and blazers are modern examples of how there are bits and pieces of late 1800s fashion still prevalent in modern ...

corsetieres and aficionados talk boning, busks and bodices. SCROLL DOWN TO WATCH AUTUMN ADAMME'S GUIDE TO CORSET-LACING She told the BBC: "It's an event by corset-makers for corset-makers.