Underwear: Fashion in Detail
Get intimately acquainted with the V&A’s world-renowned collection of undergarments in this eye-opening visual history. From camisoles to corsets, basques to boudoir caps, Underwear: Fashion in Detail traces the peculiar evolution of underwear. Revealing photographs highlight close-up details in...
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Get intimately acquainted with the V&A’s world-renowned collection of undergarments in this eye-opening visual history. From camisoles to corsets, basques to boudoir caps, Underwear: Fashion in Detail traces the peculiar evolution of underwear. Revealing photographs highlight close-up details in the garments, while intricate line drawings show their masterly construction. A wide range of designs is represented, from rare 16th-century examples to Dior’s curvaceous New Look, to Calvin Klein’s notorious briefs.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781851776160 (1851776168)
Publish date: October 1st 2010
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
A quick look-through today. Fantastic photographs and details of undergarments from the 16th century to the modern. Terrific drawings, and showing a great collection of corsetry and the like. All from the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. I must go there. I. MUST. GO. THERE.
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