Blog about linen

The exhibition under the name "Temptation" will open in the beginning of December in a museum of the New York institute of a fashion and technologies. About hundred presented exhibits can visually show history and development of sexuality, change of moral standards and social norms for last 250 years.

On a photo – the dress approximately 1903 which includes a sateen corset, a shirt and a skirt. The earliest exhibit – a dress of 1785 in which open bodice only creates effect of an exposure though actually the body is hidden under clothes.

Almost all know, that such bikini and whence has gone the name scandalous in due time a bathing suit. The term "monokini", or sometimes "junikini", meets much less often. So name a bathing suit consisting only from one bottom part. The designer in 1964 has suggested this idea. Its the first monokini reminded the one-piece swimsuit which has been cut off under a breast, leaving its bared, and had two thin shoulder straps. The idea unlike the name has not got accustomed, women who wished to sunbathe top loess, did it, putting on the bottom part of bikini, and manufacturers began to sell bathing suit parts separately.
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The amusing history how the balloon has been invented has got on eyes. On a legend, ZHozef Mongolfe, one of founders of the first balloon, has seen, how at the spouse passing by a fireplace its silk peignoir was blew up - and it has pushed him to thought, that the sphere filled with hot air can rise upwards.

I doubt, that all and was, but it is pleasant to think, that the beautiful linen can cause so raised thoughts

The history how known French singer Iv Montan with lawful spouse Simonoj the Signor came to Soviet Union, has acquired for a long time legends. This historical visit by that the French stars in two volume suitcases have taken away with themselves was remembered, departing from Moscow by the given governmental plane.

Yes, Russian sables there too were — some years then the madam the Signor supplemented with them refined evening dresses in especially solemn occasions. But the main thing, on the fees received for concerts, Montan has got "collection" of female underwear with mark «It is made in the USSR». Drawers and female body stockings with nachesom, inconceivable (green, pink and grey) colouring, have arrived to Paris and have been shown exacting western public, on the display arranged with the Frenchman. All world with horror has seen, that the Soviet women carry. Speak, Frenchwomen of drop in faints. The Soviet Government has taken offence and has for a long time branded the Willow Montana "antiadviser", having forbidden it to come to our country.

The bra history totals already more than hundred years. Undergoing numerous changes, it eventually has found the appearance close to modern representation. In this connection necessity somehow has arisen revolutionary break in the fashion world to regulate the sizes of so delicate part of female clothes.

The today's ruler of the sizes of the top part of female underwear has been offered Idoj Rosental (nee Kaganovich). In 1904 family Idy from the Jewish community near to Minsk has emigrated to America. In three years Ida has married William Rosental, and together with Enid Bisset has based in New York firm Maidenform on tailoring to order clothes.

As improvement of the models, once they have inserted into a dress vkladki for a breast of the anatomic form. Subsequently husband Idy has a little improved the invention, naming it “a bra of the virgin form” that was conformable to the studio name. Buyers of dresses with similar inserts began to address even more often with orders for bras.
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Today this attribute of lady's wear repeatedly increases sexual appeal of its owner in the opinion of men. But throughout centuries of business were differently. Men, they were the main consumers of this accessory. And a name to it stockings.
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Many years of the lady, trying to look soblaznitelnee in the opinion of gentlemen, carried fitting and close corsets. Certainly, it was a delightful occasion to faint on hands to the gallant gentleman, to hide from curious eyes a love note and to make a waist on pair centimetres already.

However, all these advantages grow dull and become covered by a layer of a century dust when we recollect the ingenious invention, on the present made the woman of the free. Whether it is necessary to say, that the woman has had an opportunity freely to sigh, not simply having weakened hard and inconvenient outsets (and even iron plates) a close corset, and only having put on that modern ladies name the French word "bra"

Let's recollect, to whom women are obliged by pleasure deeply to breathe without damage to own health.
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Very few people from us now can present, that modern amazing complete sets of underwear not always were such. They are obliged by the origin … … a simple combination! And the combination became not at once a fashionable and beautiful subject of clothes, and to the first shirt carry loincloths at men and women of the Middle Ages.

In the Victorian epoch the tiny waist and the big breast was considered as the fashion standard. Such effect was reached at the expense of hard tightening by heavy rigid corsets. New models of combinations were already short and easy, and covered a corset without superfluous bulkiness. Corsets have very quickly incorporated to a combination, having formed much more fashionable detail which and became subsequently a bra.
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You search for something one, and you find something absolutely another – during search of materials about corset history interesting news has got on eyes. It appears, a corset it not only a linen or clothes part, a way to tighten a waist or to raise a breast – a corset it also the censorship tool.

In 2002, the group of restorers working in one of churches of Rome has found out, that under bronze corsets of two statues completely worked female bodies, instead of a draught surface of a stone disappear. The historians who have become interested in such interesting fact under archival documents have restored history of clothing and an undressing of statues.

Approximately in 1660, Italian sculptor Lorentso Bernini has created for church two marble sculptures, "True" and "Mercy". In 200 years the church authorities were considered by two seminude figures obscene and in 1863 for statues bronze corsets have been made. In 2002 this fact has been found out also to statues have returned their primordial form.

If to count, it turns out that on that to put on a bronze corset on a marble statue 200 years were required, and 140 more – to remove.

Today bikini celebrates the 62 birthday. On July, 5th 1946 it has been presented for the first time public during display of a summer collection from Christian Dior. For bikini demonstration it was necessary to employ dancers from Mulen Ruzh as any of models has not wanted to leave on a podium in so frank dress for those times. On the hearings, left in bikini on podium Mishlen Bernardini after display has received about 50 000 marriage offers.

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