“14 July 1942—Jerusalem - ...A magnificent parcel, covered in tape and seals, arrived for me from India. Inside were two pairs of… — Hermione Ranfurly Copy Share Image
Corsets do look so pretty. Once I watched it, I was like, "Well, they do look nicer than the way I do… — Kristen Connolly Copy Share Image
I hate period films - and there are plenty of them - where they say, "Let's not do contemporary language because the… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
I gotta do some sad scenes. Why, I never tried to make anybody cry in my life! And I go `round all… — Buster Keaton Copy Share Image
Self-conscious? Try a wig, a corset, a veil, a beard. Or cultivate shamelessness. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for. — Mary Jo Putney Copy Share Image
Everything is important, but there is a weight to these big or expected things and then there is the logistics of them… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
I can't always be making 'British films.' Why should we be making films about corsets and horses and girls learning to drive… — Noel Clarke Copy Share Image
Wearing a real corset doesn't make you look thin! It just makes you look like you're going to pass out! Also it… — Leighton Meester Copy Share Image
I am a pig! I love to eat! i will eat anything! If you put it front of me, I will put… — Manila Luzon Copy Share Image
I have a terrible weakness for collecting snatches of other people's conversations, and occasionally I'm rewarded with unusual fragments of knowledge. My… — Peter Mayle Copy Share Image
What's really interesting is when you get a brand-new wave that has no connection to anything else. It always reflects society. The… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
Do you know that cats can't wear corsets? They can't stand! Not at all! They just fall over. I know because I… — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
Call me Buffy. I’m even blond, but don’t ask me to wear a halter top. Or corset. — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I am used to wearing corsets. Even when I was first starting out it was either Shakespeare or Chekov. Everything that I… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to intergenerational tension, and it must have been strong in the 1920s: I wondered how Louise's [Brooks] generation of flappers… — Laura Moriarty Copy Share Image
I have always been drawn to designing fashions that are rebellious, like black leather jackets on suburban kinds, a corset dress, punk,… — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
I love all the old pictures - of spanking and Bettie Page and corsets. But you can't do spanking in fashion, so… — Ellen von Unwerth Copy Share Image
Women's scars and rituals involved beauty (piercing ears and noses, binding feet, and wearing corsets); men's involved protecting women. In cultures in… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
The space program caused so much future-thinking in culture. People who couldn't go to the Moon were building space-fantasy chairs and corsets… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I realised that since I was a child I wanted to be an actress just to dress up in big fabrics and… — Clemence Poesy Copy Share Image
“A study of fifty women conducted in 1887 revealed that the corset forcibly contracted their waists by anywhere between two and a… — Joshua Zeitz Copy Share Image
