An Overview Of Ladies' Underwear

July, 1972

An Overview of Ladies' Underwearfrom bustles to step-ins to no-bra to nothing--a loving look at unmentionables through the yearsIf she had to speak of them at all, she called them her unmentionables. Of all the evasive, nice-Nelly terms that proper ladies and gentlemen once used to clothe their naked thoughts, none were more historically accurate than the coyly suggestive euphemisms for women's underwear. Throughout much of human history, female undergarments could not in truth be named--for the...