Customer Reviews

Lingerie: A History & Celebration of Silks, Satins, Laces, Linens & Other Bare Essentials

5 star:		(0)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

This book's text is dreadful. Incredibly wrong information, ridiculously mislabeled pictures including these "gems":

1)mid 1880's Fashion illustrations captioned as "Fashions from the 1850's as portrayed in Godey's Lady Book" (Having access to Godey's I can also vouch they are most certainly not from Godey's as well. They appear instead to be French- the high quality color printing gives that away.)

2)A Fashion illustration from the later 1820's is captioned "In the 14th century belts and sashes served as waist restraints, prefiguring the more severe cinching that would follow."

3)A circa 1750 fashion illustration is captioned "The 15th century farthingale was so restrictive it disappeared from Europe by the early 1600's"

Unfortunatly the elaborate descriptions and lack of reference to photo's make it difficult to "see" what the author talks about. The pictures in this are all very nice and most importantly I did learn. Thanks

This history is a pleasant little coffee table book, very light to read, and lots of photographs which people might refer to as "tasteful." I don't know how much I really learned about lingerie from reading this book, but I definitely enjoyed it.