Undressed: A brief History of Underwear.

Undressed.

"This exhibition explores the intimate relationship between underwear and fashion and its role in moulding the body to a fashionable ideal, with cut, fit,fabric and decoration revealing issues of gender, sex and morality." 

I thoroughly enjoyed this exhibition and have since developed a more in depth and meaningful understanding towards lingerie and underwear and what social impacts it has created throughout history for women.  This exhibition gave a more intimate, in depth explanation of underwear and lingerie and how and why it was created at certain points in past history. I've always looked at 'underwear' as just boring everyday garments worn to cover your intimate areas under clothing and 'Lingerie' as special, naughty and daring, mainly because of different factors etc, media and retail advertisement, mainstream and iconic models, sexism, social and unrealistic influences such as pornography and subliminal messages. This exhibition explored the history and development of both underwear & Lingerie, discussing how it was once worn by women to create structure and provide protection or a soft familiar warmth for newborns to then simply being used as high fashion statement pieces in the future. 

A brief walk through the history of Underwear...

Due to the V&A's new rules and regulations I couldn't take photographs or sketch.
The link below takes you to the Stylist blog which discusses the history of women's Underwear and Lingerie throughout history.
http://www.stylist.co.uk/fashion/a-brief-history-of-underwear#gallery-19