Shaping Femininity: Foundation Garments, the Body and Women in Early Modern England by Sarah A. Bendall

Shaping Femininity: Foundation Garments, the Body and Women in Early Modern England

Sarah A. Bendall

288 pages paperback 2021

2 editions

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In sixteenth and seventeenth-century England, the female silhouette underwent a dramatic change. This very structured form, created using garments called bodies and farthingales, existed in various extremes in Western Europe and beyond, in the for...

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