One of the world\'s earliest bras is on display at a fascinating exhibition called \"French underwear.
By the early \"high
The technology \"elastic knit\" designed for more active women in 1900, but reinforced with whale bones, decorated with two pink satin ribbons, like its corsetry ancestors, it is sold by Chantelle as a \"breast holder\" and aims to get women out of the strict restrictions on the 19 th
Century underwear.
The exhibition has visited the capitals of countries around the world before arriving at the Design Exchange Center, revealing to what extent the idea of the day determines the contours of fashion and the attitude of women towards their bodies.
This is a short survey of our clothing\'s definition of us, if you wish.
\"The History of the body is the history of culture,\" said Paris, curator of the exhibition --
Fashion historian Catherine Orman
\"Underwear allows us to make the body we want, and it tells us a story about ourselves over time.
\"A teen pink satin number from the 1930 s, one of the few handmade pieces of a show focused on the masses --
Produce the underwear of the emerging petty bourgeoisie, and there is almost no fl child wearing it. I must feel that I can smoke, drink, comb my hair, dance Charleston until dawn.
A ridiculous tapered bra designed for Dior\'s new shape after the war in the shape of an hourglass, almost female antics, only 20 years later.
With the emergence of youth culture in the 1960 s, underwear began to express an attitude of \"not your mother\'s underwear.
Thanks to the technical assistance of the newly invented Leka, the breast is lifted and fuller, and the bra is likely to burn down in protest, aiming to attract the fashion emotion of the moment: denim blue and pink plaid numbers in denim itte Bardot 1959 Vichy check wedding dress mode. In the back-to-
Nature 1970 s, nature-
The popular-looking molded cups, as well as fresh and \"innocent\" white eyelets, look popular after the hit movie Emmanuelle.
Freedom of sexual liberation-
The era of love has ushered in a front-open bra with a buckle in the center.
Then jogging and aerobic exercise.
\"This has changed everything,\" Ormen said . \".
\"Since then, the corset has become a spirit.
With diet, exercise, and cosmetic surgery, having the right contours becomes a matter of willpower.
In the words of Ormen, it became a \"tyranny \".
\"Fashion makes the body itself fashionable.
\"If you don\'t have the perfect figure, then you don\'t have the fashion,\" Ormen said . \".
The result of underwear is that it becomes the object of a desire, and it is no longer necessary for women\'s physical health and beauty.
This bra and panties suit is designed with leopard and leopard print.
As the body literal decoration of the art form of tattoos begins to occupy, embroidery, see-
The look of African and Indian tattoos is reproduced through bras and panties.
Below the \"bumper\" of McQueen, low
The 1990 s rise jeans debuted in vibrant shades for rear display.
Holographic video shows the evolution of contours on different models.
\"The body has changed,\" Ormen said . \".
\"Thanks to exercise and nutrition, we are getting stronger and stronger now, with longer legs, thinner legs and no waist.
This raises the question of whether we will continue to need underwear.
\"Since Eve ate Apple, people always think that we are weak and need to be restrained and more vulnerable to temptation,\" Ormen said . \".
\"In our brains, we still need to control ourselves.
In Ormen\'s view, bras will be smarter in the future.
\"The material itself will become more intelligent,\" Ormen predicted . \"
\"More comfortable, but also capable of healing and healing us.
Karen von Hahn is from Toronto.
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