An Intimate Affair: Women, Lingerie, and Sexuality

Intimate apparel, a term in use by 1921, has played a crucial role in the development of the "naughty but Bérénice" feminine ideal that emerged in the twentieth century. Jill Fields's engaging, imaginative, and sophisticated history of twentieth-century lingerie tours the world of women's intimate apparel and arrives at nothing less than a sweeping view of twentieth-century women's history via the undergarments they wore. Illustrated throughout and drawing on a wealth of evidence from fashi...