Lingerie. A Lexicon of Style

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Date

2000

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Science TT670 CV62. Every effort has been made to trace copyright ownership and to obtain permission for reproduction. If you believe you are the copyright owner of an item on this site, and we have not requested your permission, please contact us at special.collections@otago.ac.nz

Publisher

London: Scriptum Editions

Abstract

Utility or fantasy? Lingerie is more (or perhaps less) than mere underwear. Dorothy Parker’s maxim ‘Brevity is the soul of underwear’ contrasts with Dior’s ‘Without foundation there can be no fashion’ and Sigmund Freud’s ‘At the root of every taboo, there must be desire.’ Calling attention to what it conceals, is lingerie for our own pleasure or someone else’s? Will it ever be the same since the invention of Lycra and Spanx?

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Citation

Caroline Cox, “Lingerie. A Lexicon of Style,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed March 30, 2024, https://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/9791.