Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #77575 in Books
• Published on: 1992-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Synopsis
A scholarly, but thoroughly entertaining illustrated history of undergarments worn by the English over the past 600 years, originally published in 1951 by Michael Joseph Ltd., London. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Customer Reviews

Best researched book on the subject
This book is probably to most comprehensive and best researched book I have come across on the subject. It covers both male and female underclothes, through the various periods giving not only style but construction of the garments. An amazing find for those interested in needlecraft and garment construction, real must for any historian and invaluable to all interested in portraying our past in costume.

highly modified rapture
Setting aside the illustrations, this book is regrettably a better source for 1950's notions about what kinds of underwear are sexy, than for information about the relations between underwear and costume as a whole. The authors' ideas of gender, sexual behaviour and clothing are highly dated, often unintentionally amusing and occasionally outright insulting. I was extremely disappointed in what I had hoped would be a serious study.

Nevertheless, the collection of illustrations is useful, and serves to garner this text its second star.