View: Essentials for the well-dressed man

By Leanne Fitzgibbon, Senior Curator, Bendigo Art Gallery
August 28 2014 - 2:00am
A Dandy Trying on New Stays, an illustration from Indispensable Requisites for Dandies of Both Sexes, c.1823. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
A Dandy Trying on New Stays, an illustration from Indispensable Requisites for Dandies of Both Sexes, c.1823. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

PRIVATE clothing, or apparel that was not intended for public viewing, includes all types of undergarments, from foundation ware and structural corsets through to diaphanous slips and suspender belts. 

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