num_pages: 392
description: Intimate apparel a term in use by 1921 has played a crucial role in the development of the naughty but nice 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 fashion magazines trade periodicals costume artifacts Hollywood films and the records of organized labor An Intimate Affair is a provocative examination of the ways cultural meanings are orchestrated by the fashion-industrial complex and the ways in which individuals and groups embrace reject or derive meaning from these everyday yet highly significant intimate articles of clothing.
language: English
title: An Intimate Affair: Women, Lingerie, and Sexuality
publisher: University of California Press