The Story of Lingerie
By Muriel Barbier, Shazia Boucher
Length5h 58m
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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Rating★★★★ 3.9 (16)
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GenreOther
Length5 hrs 58 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 8, 2012
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Story of Lingerie
2© Crazy Horse, p. 140
3Acknowledgements
4Autumn/Winter 2001-2002 Collection.
5satisfaction.
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6Introduction
7The Story of Lingerie
8western society.
9Underwear and fashion
10Lingerie, corsetry and hosiery
11such as petticoats, chemises, bloomers, long johns, briefs, vests and slips.
12Underwear and fashion
13clothing: shoulders, waist, bust and hips.
14François Gérard, Portrait of Juliette Récamier, 1805.
15Underwear and fashion
16The Story of Lingerie
17Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Swing, 1766.
18Print, Charivari, 1855. Musée Galliera.
19Page 37.
20Underwear and fashion
21Wonderbra advertisement.
22European women in the 15th century
23Renaissance women
24Page 49.
25Women in “1900”
26Underwear and fashion
27Wolford, Spring/Summer 2004.
28The Story of Lingerie
29`tàxÜ|tÄá
30Underwear and fashion
31Page 67.
32Page 71 – right.
33luxurious-looking underwear at a lower price.
34Chantal Thomass, Autumn / Winter collection 2001-2002.
35Colours
36Underwear and fashion
37The Story of Lingerie
38Underwear and fashion
39Page 86.
40Underwear and Society
41Stages of life
42R ites of passage
43Baptism
44First Communion
45Page 90.
46The Story of Lingerie
47social differences.
48Marriage
49Mourning slip. Galliera Museum, Paris.
50Mourning
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