Domestic Chores for husbands in the Victorian eras meant lacing up contraptions like this and made the gay nineties not so gay. The corset required te(...)

Original Toronto Star caption: Domestic Chores for husbands in the Victorian eras meant lacing up contraptions like this and made the gay nineties not so gay. The corset required ten feet of laces. Left; is an 1860 hoopskirt of purple taffeta; right; a tan silk with a poke bonnet. New York city's museum owns them.