This Warners advertisement is from the September 1955 issue of the large format, beautifully printed, US magazine Ladies Home Journal . They are typically shown in advertisements over an underskirt, but this is an artifice to focus attention on the garment. There is a great resurgence in interest in corsetry, including bespoke corsets of the most elaborate designs. Women like to be held, by a man and by the clothes which they like so close to them. Click here to read the text of this advert.
Warners still make excellent intimate apparel.
I have been unable to find them on the Net, but I did find some photos of their current products here . There is a vast range of aesthetics in the design of feminine clothing, and an equally expansive universe of mythologies and resonances which enliven this vital art form. While the aesthetics of images on this page range from the warm and yummy to the sharp, lurid and bizarre, this image rings all the bells in the twin towers of the the most exalted feminine cathedral - the towers devoted firstly to physical and mystical flight and secondly to the state of being an angel. You can read the inspirational caption here . I hope in the future to scan this image so as to more successfully ignore its screened nature.