BOOKS ON LINGERIE AND CORSETS 1000 Dessous: The History of Lingerie - This softcover book has very little text and lots of fantastic photographs which tell the history or timeline of women's lingerie. Full of B&W and color photographs, illustrations, designs, ads, and glamour shots. A great gift for lingerie lovers. A Century of Lingerie - A dazzling investigation into women's most intimate apparel, celebrating the ever-changing styles of lingerie throughout the century. Profiles the big names of international lingerie fashion and follows their paths to fame... In The Corset: A Cultural History, Valerie Steele, chief curator and acting director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology and editor of Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, takes on an item of clothing that has achieved notoriety among many historians. But Steele challenges the popular view that corset-wearing women were merely the victims of fashion, and delves into the "complex gender politics surrounding the corset controversies of the past." The hundreds of color and b&w photos and illustrations provide entertaining visual evidence for Steele's scholarship. Fetish Fashion: Undressing the Corset Inside Out Brief History - Drawing on the National Trust’s costume collection, Shelly Tobin traces the items that were used to squeeze women into a variety of shapes and styles, from the stays and corsets of the early 18th century to the silk and lace-trimmed items of the early 20th century. She also looks at nightclothes, maternity garb, and menswear.   Back To Top