The Story of Lingerie
Seduction, fashion, and the secrets of fabricBy Muriel Barbier
Length5h 1m
About this audiobook
What is the social merit or purpose of all those bras and panties on perfectly sculpted bodies that we see spread across billboards and magazines? Many women indulge in lingerie to please men. Yet, ever since Antiquity, women have always kept lingerie hidden away under outer garments. Thus, lingerie must be more than erotic bait. Authors Muriel Barbier and Shazia Boucher have researched iconography to explore the relationship of lingerie to society, the economy and the corridors of intimacy. They correlate lingerie with emancipation, querying whether it asserts newfound freedoms or simply adjusts to conform to changing social values. The result is a rigorous scientific rationale spiced with a zest of humour. And the tinier lingerie gets, the more scholarly attention it deserves.
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Length5 hrs 1 min
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Table of contents
1Introduction
30Clothing for children
2Preface
31Contradictory arguments about trousers for women and the corset
3Introduction
32Trousers or bloomers
4Underwear and fashion
33The corset
5Lingerie, corsetry and hosiery
34Sports underwear
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6How underwear began to allow the silhouette evolve
35Horseback riding
7From Ancient Greece to modern woman: what have they been wearing under their clothes?
36Cycling
8European women in the 15th century
37Swimming
9Renaissance women
38Dancers
10Women in “1900”
39Eroticism, seduction and fetishism
11Materials
40The eroticism of women’s underwear
12Colours
41Seductive and sexy underwear
13Underwear and Society
42Fetishism and women’s underwear: from private clubs to the catwalk
14Stages of life
43Economics
15Rites of passage
44Lingerie manufacturing: How fashion was distributed
16Baptism
45The current lingerie market
17First Communion
46Distribution networks
18From childhood to adolescence
47Motivation to purchase
19Marriage
48Communication
20Mourning
49Marketing
21The trousseau and its reflection in Society
50Some current directions for lingerie: The youth market
22Women’s work
51Underwear on top
23The rise and fall of the trousseau
52Technological contributions to lingerie
24Caring for linen: Care of raw materials
53Sportswear at the beginning of the 21st century
25A Woman’s private life and clothing
54Sexy lingerie
26The nightdress
55A perfect marriage of lingerie and lace: an interview with Olivier Noyon, President of the Board of Noyon Dentelle
27The negligee
56Conclusion
28The bedroom and private life
57Acknowledgements
29Underwear according to the season and social status
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