Corset News Archive - 25-Nov-2006
NEW YORK ? All the high-profile trappings are here: skimpy outfits, leggy models in super-high heels, ogling photographers, seamstresses with straight pins dangling from their mouths.
"Glitter and Doom: German Portraits From the 1920s" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, is little short of an electrical storm. Organized by Sabine Rewald, this exhibition creates an indelible, psychologically charged picture of Weimar Germany as it teetered between World Wars I and II.
Platform shoes could be the eighth architectural wonder. They are remarkable examples of design but, like most of the seven fabled monuments of the ancient world, surely these extravagant pillars of footwear cannot last.
A 19TH century visitor turned up in Chippenham on Saturday to help launch the town's 2006 festival.
The Metropolitan Museum?s exhibition creates an indelible, psychologically charged picture of Weimar Germany as it teetered between World Wars I and II.
As you stroll through the exhibits in the Linn County Historical Museum in Brownsville, take a close look at the mannequins and photographs that depict pioneer women.
"I've never been a super-depressed person, but it was always in the back of my mind: I'm the biggest person here. I always felt like I was tagging along. Now I kind of feel like my personality matches my outside. Seat of discomfort I remember leaving Twins games with huge red indentations in my thighs because the seat was too small. That happened all the time. If I sat with a stranger, I'd feel
