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What Lies Beneath..?

2 August 2018 By Karen Bowman

To celebrate National Underwear Day on 5 August, Karen Bowman journeys through 300 years of unmentionables. So…5 August 2018 is National Underwear Day… a full 24 hours to contemplate how undergarments down the centuries have pushed, pulled and bullied our bodies into an altered state of reality, if not always being able to shape our […]

A Brief History of Underwear

26 May 2016 By Imogen Robertson

Imogen Robertson reviews Undressed, the latest hot ticket at the V&A. When I was a child, my mother discovered that no matter the size of strop I’d managed to get myself into, if she said the word ‘knickers’ enough in a very serious voice, I’d crack and start giggling. I have a nasty feeling it would […]

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