(Ebook) An Intimate Affair: Women, Lingerie, and Sexuality by Jill Fields ISBN 9780520223691, 9780520252615, 9780520941137, 0520223691, 0520252616, 0520941136

(Ebook) An Intimate Affair: Women, Lingerie, and Sexuality by Jill Fields ISBN 9780520223691, 9780520252615, 9780520941137, 0520223691, 0520252616, 0520941136

Intimate apparel, a term in use by 1921, has played a crucial role in the development of the naughty but nice feminine ideal that emerged in the twentieth century. Jill Fields's engaging, imaginative, and sophisticated history of twentieth-century lingerie tours the world of women's intimate apparel and arrives at nothing less than a sweeping view of twentieth-century women's history via the undergarments they wore. Illustrated throughout and drawing on a wealth of evidence from fashion magazines, trade periodicals, costume artifacts, Hollywood films, and the records of organized labour, An Intimate Affair is a provocative examination of the ways cultural meanings are orchestrated by the fashion-industrial complex, and the ways in which individuals and groups embrace, reject, or derive meaning from this everyday, yet highly significant, intimate articles of clothing.