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27 JanBlog Corset History V: Corsets in Postmodern Fashion
Although corsets are no longer part of the average woman’s everyday wear, they remain a great source of inspiration for subcultural styles and contemporary designers — including Dark Garden Corsetry!
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19 JanBlog Corset History IV: The Modern Corset
Although the emancipated spirit of the “Roaring Twenties” seemingly conquered the corset, the corset didn’t disappear: read on to learn how the traditional corset inspired modern shapewear.
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13 JanBlog Corset History III: The 19th Century
The hourglass-shaped corset is a classic image of Victorian women’s fashion, but an image is just that: one way to represent decades of fashion. In reality, the changing silhouettes of 19th-century corsetry were far more complex.
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06 JanBlog Corset History II: Stays
What’s one of the things “Queen of Fashion” Marie Antoinette, Catherine I of Russia, and the American Schuyler sisters of Hamilton fame have in common? They all wore stays.
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28 DecBlog Corset History I: The First Corsets
Dark Garden Corsetry has specialized in modern corsets for over 30 years, but this represents just a fraction of the history of fashionable corsetry. Historical designs inform modern ones, so we’d like to take you through the story of the corset, starting with the emergence of its ancestor: “boned bodies.”