Women’s legs in photography is a bilingual book (french-english) that depicts the evolution of ladies clothing from the late 1800′s to the eighties and ends by a surprising conclusion: the more women acquired rights and freedom, the more they revealed their legs! (english below) Les jambes des femmes en photos est une rétrospective vestimentaire en [...]
Articles Tagués ‘Histoire du costume’
Les jambes des femmes en photos
Publié dans Arts, Culture & Spectacle, Le nylon, les arts, la culture, tagué bas nylon, Beauties from the Past, bicycle, bicyclette, biking, flapper, Histoire du costume, jambes, Mode rétro, Nylon Stockings, vélo, Vintage Clothing, Vintage Lingerie à 12/03/2009 | 15 Commentaires »
Le bas dans tous ses états! De l’Antiquité jusqu’au Moyen-Âge partie 1
Publié dans Histoire du bas, tagué bas de soie, bas nylon, Histoire du costume, History of hosiery, hosiery, pantalon, Silk Stockings à 10/03/2009 | 2 Commentaires »
History of hosiery from the Antiquity to the late 1930′s part 1 This is the first article of a series dedicated to the history of stockings- Early references to hosiery go back to the ancient Greeks. Workmen and slaves wore hosiery in ancient times, and Roman woman wore a short sock (called a soccus) in [...]





