Introduction
Hello, hello, hello! Welcome to the cutest little blog you ever did see. Thanks very much for joining me! My name is Rachel Walker. I'm a dual major in anthropology and history at Utah State University. Because why have one bachelors' degree when you can have two for twice the price? This is my senior year and for my exit move, I've decided to embark on quite the fashion history adventure. This blog is all about the Undergraduate Research and Creative Opportunity (URCO) Grant I applied for in June 2021. Hopefully it will be accepted in August. My project focuses on Victorian-Era corsetry and how contradictory ideas from the nineteenth century about the corset form public opinion today. I'm very excited about it! In order to better understand the role of corsets in women's lives, my aim is to reconstruct and wear an 1890s corset on and off for a period of several months as an experiment to see how it supports or constricts my body. During the experiment I will wear
