Underwear: Fashion in Detail

Underwear: Fashion in Detail

by Eleri Lynn
Underwear: Fashion in Detail

Underwear: Fashion in Detail

by Eleri Lynn

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Overview

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, Eleri Lynn’s 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781851777846
Publisher: V & A Publishing
Publication date: 05/06/2014
Pages: 224
Sales rank: 567,531
Product dimensions: 9.00(w) x 11.70(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Eleri Lynn is a fashion curator at the V&A and was the assistant curator of the V&A’s major exhibition The Golden Age of Couture (V&A, 2007). She contributed to the accompanying book of that title.
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