With actress Naomi Jacobson perched on a stand as she's fitted for a gown in Arena Stage's "Mary T. & Lizzy K.," an audience learns what's in and what's out in mid-19th-century haute couture. Out, explains Mary Todd Lincoln's dressmaker, Elizabeth Keckly (Sameerah Luqmaan-Harris), are the wide, pagoda-shaped undergarments that cleared a woman's path like the cowcatcher of a freight train. "In" is the sleeker boni…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:05PM on April 1, 2013