A model wears a design from the Bora Aksu collection during London Fashion Week, Friday, Feb. 15, 2013, in London. (Photo by Jonathan Short/Invision/AP) LONDON - Severe-looking leather corsets, ...

The corset is probably the most controversial garment in the entire history of fashion. Worn by women throughout the western world from the late Renaissance into the twentieth century, the corset was ...

NEW YORK — From a 1770 corset to a 2014 bra-and-panty set in lacy stretch silk, the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology has put the focus on lingerie and women’s foundation garments in a new ...

John Dunn is worried. Not overly, but still. People have told him they're so taken with the looks he and his design team created for the HBO series "Boardwalk Empire" that they are tempted to turn ...

BENNINGTON, Vt. -- In 1837, when Susan Dyer Spencer Munro walked down the main street of Shaftsbury, Vt., she wore a coppery corset with a stiff busk in front. No one except Susan (and perhaps her ...

The history of our obsession with tiny waists, from corsets to the Kardashians. This corset was designed around 1851 by Madame Roxy Caplin with minimal, flexible boning to achieve fashionable curves.

In 1908, a doctor used X-rays to highlight the damaging effects of tight corsets on a woman's body. Michelle Starr Science editor Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as ...