The Story of Lingerie
Seduction, fashion, and the secrets of fabricBy Muriel Barbier
Length5h 6m
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.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 3.9 (17)
Includes Goodreads
GenreOther
Length5 hrs 6 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 28, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Preface
3Introduction
4Underwear and fashion
5Lingerie, corsetry and hosiery
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6How underwear began to allow the silhouette evolve
7From Ancient Greece to modern woman: what have they been wearing under their clothes?
8European women in the 15th century
9Renaissance women
10Women in “1900”
11Materials
12Colours
13Underwear and Society
14Stages of life
15Rites of passage
16Baptism
17First Communion
18From childhood to adolescence
19Marriage
20Mourning
21The trousseau and its reflection in Society
22Women’s work
23The rise and fall of the trousseau
24Caring for linen: Care of raw materials
25A Woman’s private life and clothing
26The nightdress
27The negligee
28The bedroom and private life
29Underwear according to the season and social status
30Clothing for children
31Contradictory arguments about trousers for women and the corset
32Trousers or bloomers
33The corset
34Sports underwear
35Horseback riding
36Cycling
37Swimming
38Dancers
39Eroticism, seduction and fetishism
40The eroticism of women’s underwear
41Seductive and sexy underwear
42Fetishism and women’s underwear: from private clubs to the catwalk
43Economics
44Lingerie manufacturing: How fashion was distributed
45The current lingerie market
46Distribution networks
47Motivation to purchase
48Communication
49Marketing
50Some current directions for lingerie: The youth market
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