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The Changing Fashion Of Breast Shape
The December issue of British Vogue has generated a lot of discussion in the last week for declaring that cleavage is over. Media outlets were jumping on this story right away, declaring that UK women...
View Article#UPMTC: Our first ever Twitter conference
On Friday 12th January 2018, the Underpinnings Museum held an academic conference 100% online as part of our ongoing quest to bring the history of underwear to a wider audience, making collections and...
View Article#UPMTC: The role of women in the history of underwear, by Susanna Cordner
This is the second of our blog posts documenting the first Underpinnings Museum Twitter conference. It focuses on the presentation from our keynote speaker Susanna Cordner, which followed Karolina’s...
View Article#UPMTC: Boudoir Caps & Zeppelin Nighties, by Lucie Whitmore
In the third of our posts documenting the first Underpinnings Twitter conference, we are sharing the presentation of Lucie Whitmore, entitled Boudoir Caps & Zeppelin Nighties: How fashionable women...
View Article#UPMTC: The Walls of Jericho, by Casci Ritchie
This blog post – part of a series documenting the first Underpinnings Museum Twitter conference – details the presentation from Casci Ritchie, entitled The Walls of Jericho: Dressing for the bedroom...
View Article#UPMTC: Auschwitz and Underwear, by Lucy Adlington
This blog post – part of a series documenting the first Underpinnings Museum Twitter conference – details the presentation from Lucy Adlington, entitled Auschwitz and Underwear: the humanising power of...
View Article#UPMTC: The Big Sell, by Shaun Cole
This blog post details the presentation from Shaun Cole at the first Underpinnings Museum Twitter conference, entitled The Big Sell: Men’s Underwear Advertising in the Early 20th Century. In addressing...
View Article#UPMTC: The curious history of Radioactive Corsets, by Lucy Jane Santos
This blog post documents the Underpinnings Museum Twitter Conference presentation by Lucy Jane Santos, entitled The Curious History of Radioactive Corsets. This presentation will look at the surprising...
View Article#UPMTC: Hold On and Suck In, by Cassidy Percoco
This blog post details the Underpinnings Museum Twitter conference presentation from Cassidy Percoco, entitled Hold On and Suck In: 20th Century Views of the 19th Century Corset. Since the early...
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Guest Post: Depilation in the 1920s, by Lucy Jane Santos
In this series of posts, I will be taking something from the Underpinnings Museum’s collection and using it to look at an object from my collection of historical beauty items. Today’s twin focuses are...
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