NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — The Hunter House Victorian Museum bares all in their latest exhibit — sort of. “From Corsets to Crinoline: Unmentionables and the Road to Women’s Suffrage” highlights the change ...

Brush your teeth with soot, stay away from water, wear a steel corset. We’ll talk with the author of “How to Be A Victorian.” Strange ways from another age. Frederick Daniel Hardy's "Baby's Birthday" ...

Women’s liberation came decades before the women’s lib movement of the 1960s. According to a new exhibition at the Hunter House Victorian Museum in Norfolk, women were freeing themselves from ...

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Lethal Fashion: Death by Crinoline | RealClearScience In addition to smallpox, cholera, and consumption, Victorian era denizens had to consider the perils of crinoline, the rigid, cage-like structure ...