Corset News Archive - 09-Aug-2007
The sale of a series of letters penned by Einstein and a corset worn by Marilyn Monroe helped boost the performance of Stanley Gibbons, which yesterday reported a 25 per cent rise in profits for the half year.
Remember the advice they used to give mothers-of-the-groom? Show up. Shut up. Wear beige. Well, she's still showing up, but she's not silent anymore. And she's definitely not wearing beige. A low-cut hot-pink number, maybe, but not beige. Weddings, like almost all other customs in 21st-century American society, have had their traditions blasted, recrafted and updated to meet changing times.
New Zealand designers After dressing New Zealand women for 40 years, Barbara Lee is planning retirement.
Still reeling after 222 minutes of silver screen enchantment, it's hard to relinquish the bizarre image of porcelain-skinned debutantes with 12-inch waists and 82-inch hips prancing, pivoting and do-se-do-ing like their lives depended on it.
In the whimsical new film Stardust, she plays a celestial body that falls from the heavens and captures mortal hearts. Alwynne Gwilt talks to down-to-earth star Claire Danes
corsets might be a cinch to get into, and are back in style, but there are still some dangers in being tightly laced. corsets, and their underwear cousins the girdle or slimming garments, are making a comeback. But women need to be aware of their effect.
