Dress and undress : a history of women's underwear
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Dress and undress : a history of women's underwear
Batsford, 1989, c1978
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p183-187) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
An account of women's underwear from 3000 BC to the present day. Elizabeth Ewing wrote many books on the history of costume, including "Women in Uniform" and "History of Children's Costume".
Table of Contents
- Shaping up to fashion - the start of underwear 3000 BC to AD 1350
- from willowy waists to flaring farthingales, 1350-1600
- the tempestuous petticoat, 1600-1680
- the big build-up of hoops - and their collapse, 1680-1780
- they threw away their corsets - but wore bust improvers, 1780-1830
- a time of change - drawers and bloomers, 1830-1856
- dressed to kill, with crinolines and tight lacing, 1856-1865
- showing the figure - but with bustles behind, 1865-1880
- revolt against fashion and the banishment of the corset, 1850-1880
- the health cult and wool next to the skin, 1880 onwards
- lingerie and luxury, 1890-1908
- towards a straight line, from 1908
- World War One, then the 20s and the boyish figure, 1914-1929
- material changes in corsetry and underwear and their effect on fashion, 1920-1939
- clothing by decree, then the New Look and more changes 1939-1960
- the youth revolution. today's invisible underwear and underwear that goes everywhere, 1960-1978.
by "Nielsen BookData"