Lingerie

see a woman only in her underwear is infinitely more sensual and sexual than seeing a woman entirely naked.

Foreword
“Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.”

— Epictetus

A designer’s work should be orientated towards this fulfilment.

plain and satin weave, jersey, lawn, muslin, percale, and voile.

The “divorce corset” (so named because it separated the breasts) introduced in 1816 continued the trend of distinctly separated breasts.

dress and the drape lasted into classical and Hellenistic Greece, femininity was suppressed with cloth bands that flattened chest and hips. Androgyny, which some attribute to the homosexual values of Greek civilization, governed the silhouette. The Hellenistic woman was completely covered up, her sexuality hidden under the folds of the chiffon.

By the late Middle Ages, a period marked by serious epidemics of the plague, the round belly and its navel were appreciated as symbols of fertility and hope for a de-populated Europe.

Beginning in 1770 the whalebone

body was criticized by contemporaries such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau who advocated a return to simplicity and natur

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