Shaping up to fashion - the start of underwear 3000 BC to AD 1350; from willowy waists to flaring farthingales, 1350-1600; the tempestuous petticoat, 1600-1680; the big build-up of hoops - and their collapse, 1680-1780; they threw away their corsets - but wore bust improvers, 1780-1830; a time of change - drawers and bloomers, 1830-1856; dressed to kill, with crinolines and tight lacing, 1856-1865; showing the figure - but with bustles behind, 1865-1880; revolt against fashion and the banishment of the corset, 1850-1880; the health cult and wool next to the skin, 1880 onwards; lingerie and luxury, 1890-1908; towards a straight line, from 1908; World War One, then the 20s and the boyish figure, 1914-1929; material changes in corsetry and underwear and their effect on fashion, 1920-1939; clothing by decree, then the New Look and more changes 1939-1960; the youth revolution. today's invisible underwear and underwear that goes everywhere, 1960-1978.
