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Fashioning the body : an intimate history of the silhouette / edited by Denis Bruna.

Contributor(s): Bruna, Denis [editor.] | Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture [host institution.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 271 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 28 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780300204278 (hbk.) :Uniform titles: Mécanique des dessous. English. Subject(s): Foundation garments -- History | Fashion -- History | Clothing and dress -- HistoryDDC classification: 746.9'2 Summary: This work offers insights into the tortuous transformations employed by both men and women to sculpt their figures and accommodate the ever-shifting dictates of fashion. It tracks the evolution of these sartorial devices - from panniers, crinolines, stomachers, bustles, body shapers and push-up bras to whalebone, hoopskirts, lacing chains, zippers, clasps and elasticized fabrics - concealed beneath outer layers in order to achieve the most coveted shapes of the day.
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Translated from the French.

Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name at the Bard Graduate Center, New York, 3rd April-26th July 2015.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This work offers insights into the tortuous transformations employed by both men and women to sculpt their figures and accommodate the ever-shifting dictates of fashion. It tracks the evolution of these sartorial devices - from panniers, crinolines, stomachers, bustles, body shapers and push-up bras to whalebone, hoopskirts, lacing chains, zippers, clasps and elasticized fabrics - concealed beneath outer layers in order to achieve the most coveted shapes of the day.

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