London museum to showcase fashion’s supporting cast,from 19th-century whalebone corsets and bustles to David Beckham’s contemporary boxersAn exhibition devoted to the best supporting actors of the fashion world –the cotton, silk, and lace,whalebone and elastic underwear that has for centuries smoothed detested lumps and scaffolded desirable curves – is to open next spring at the V&A museum in London.
Among the exhibits of Undressed: A Brief History of Underwear is a fuchsia corset trimmed with black lace, which could be worn by any contemporary burlesque star with a small enough waist but dates from the 1890s; and a belt designed to create a more svelte waistline worn by a groom on his wedding day in 1842.
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Source: theguardian.com