and sometimes like a girl...

A brief history in lingerie.

"Women's lingerieis the stuff of fantasy. A vital element in the art of undressing, it never fails to work it's strange magic."

(Boned corset 17th Centruy)

(Shop Boulevard De Strasbourg 1909)

(1927 France) below photograph as well

(1920's postcard)

(1947)

(current)

(current)

(photographs courtesy of haw-lin.com/, and 1,000 Dessous "A History of Lingerie" by Gilles Neret)