1. Underwear: Security vs. Freedom

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1. Underwear: Security vs. Freedom

1. Akiko Fukai, ed. Fashion: A History from the 18th to the 20th Century, vol. II (Cologne: Taschen, 2006), 338–339.

2. www.staylace.com/textarea/newspaperarticles/star_tribune020900.html.

3. Grace Evans, “Underwear,” in Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, vol. 8, West Europe.

4. James Laver, Taste and Fashion: From the French Revolution Until Today (London: G. G. Harrap, 1937), 49–50.

5. Colleen Gau, “Brassiere,” in A – Z of Fashion.

6. Vintageadsandstuff.com/maidenform.

7. “Maidenform Blushes,” Time, April 25, 1983, www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,923573,00.html.

8. Leigh Summers, “‘Elegance, Comfort, and Durability!’ Class, Countours, and Corsetry,” chapter 3 of Bound to Please: A History of the Victorian Corset (London: Berg, 2001).

9. Marianne Thesander, The Feminine Ideal, trans. Nicholas Hills (London: Reaktion Books, 1997), 26.

10. Ibid., 43.

11. David Kunzle, quoted in Thesander, ibid., 43.

12. Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast, Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear Through the Ages, vol. 5 (Detroit: UXL, 2004), 978.

13. Alison Lurie, The Language of Clothes (New York: Henry Holt, 2000), 249.

14. Naomi E. A. Tarrant, “England,” in Berg Encyclopedia, vol. 8, West Europe.

15. Elizabeth Hawes, It’s Still Spinach (Boston: Little, Brown, 1954), 137.

16. Phyllis G. Tortora, “Types and Properties of Fashionable Dress,” in Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, vol. 3, The United States and Canada.

17. Susan M. Watkins, “Fashion, Health, and Disease,” in A – Z of Fashion, quoting Bernard W. H. Rudofsky, Are Clothes Modern?

18. Tarrant, “England.”

19. Mireille M. Lee, “Ancient Greek Dress,” in Berg Encyclopedia, vol. 9, East Europe, Russia, and the Caucasus.

20. James Laver, Costume and Fashion: A Concise History (New York: Thames & Hudson, 2002), 50.

21. Ibid., 58.

22. Rodney Bennett-England, Dress Optional: The Revolution in Menswear (London: Peter Owen, 1967), 40.

23. Ibid.

24. Charlotte Mankey Calasibetta and Phyllis Tortora, eds., The Fairchild Dictionary of Fashion, 3rd ed. (New York: Fairchild Publications, 2003), 462.

25. Jan Glier Reeder, High Style: Masterworks from the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2010), 197.