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The Story of Lingerie
Muriel Barbier, Shazia Boucher
Verlag Parkstone-International, 2012
ISBN 9781780429700 , 271 Seiten
Format PDF
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Contents
5
Preface
7
ntroduction
11
Underwear and fashion
15
Lingerie, corsetry and hosiery
17
How underwear began to allow the silhouette evolve
25
From Ancient Greece to modern woman: what have they been wearing under their clothes?
43
European women in the 15th century
43
Renaissance women
44
Women in “1900”
51
Colours
77
Underwear and Society
89
Stages of life
91
Rites of passage
91
Baptism
91
First Communion
91
From childhood to adolescence
93
Marriage
93
Mourning
94
The trousseau and its reflection in Society
94
Women’s work
94
The rise and fall of the trousseau
97
Caring for linen
103
Care of raw materials
104
A Woman’s private life and clothing
109
The nightdress
109
The negligee
109
The bedroom and private life
115
Underwear according to the season and social status
125
Clothing for children
125
Contradictory arguments about trousers for women and the corset
127
Trousers or bloomers
127
The corset
127
Sports underwear
133
Horseback riding
133
Cycling
133
Swimming
139
Dancers
139
Eroticism, seduction and fetishism
141
The eroticism of women’s underwear
143
Seductive and sexy underwear
157
Fetishism and women’s underwear: from private clubs to the catwalk
185
Economics
199
Lingerie manufacturing
201
How fashion was distributed
203
The current lingerie market
207
Distribution networks
207
Motivation to purchase
219
Communication
224
Advertising goes too far
227
Marketing
228
Some current directions for lingerie
228
The youth market
228
Underwear on top
231
Technological contributions to lingerie
231
Sportswear at the beginning of the 21st century
231
Sexy lingerie
235
Conclusion
259
Glossary
260
1. TECHNICAL AND GENERAL TERMS:
260
2. TERMS SPECIFIC TO UNDERWEAR:
263
Notes
268
Bibliography
270
Acknowledgements
271
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