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Revealing the iron corset
| Elizabeth McFadden
There are around 15 iron corsets in museum collections around the world, including two in Wellcome Collection. Historians still dispute their purpose, but these intriguing objects hold clues about who would have worn them and why.
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Fashion for an unruly body
| Rosalind JanaCamilla Greenwell
One weekend, just before an operation to correct her scoliosis, Rosalind Jana stopped trying to hide her body. Read how those two days helped her step into the future.
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Our endless quest for eternal youth
| Dr Lindsey FitzharrisKathleen Arundell
From poisonous 16th-century cosmetics to the latest “vampire facelift”, discover the fashions in unsavoury methods for improving our appearance.