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SARAH BENDALL on what shows like Bridgerton get wrong about whalebone and corsetry   The hotly anticipated prequel to the popular Bridgerton series, Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, has recently landed on Netflix, and the Bridgerton writers have once again taken aim at the corset, starting with the opening sequence…

A short history of the material key used in Western women’s stays from the 16th century through to the 20th century.

Whalebone is the colloquial English term for a material known as baleen. Baleen is not bone.