{"id":3184,"date":"2012-07-11T07:30:50","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T14:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/?p=3184"},"modified":"2012-07-03T07:32:29","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T14:32:29","slug":"undergardments-1920-1929","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/2012\/07\/11\/undergardments-1920-1929\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergardments: 1920-1929"},"content":{"rendered":"

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c1925: Slips and bloomers, fashionable in the 1920s, and a corset, worn during the Victorian era.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The boyish silhouette of the 1920s required special undergarments. Generally, a bandeau was used to flatten the bust with a single piece of fabric. Corsets and girdles were still heavily boned. Corset substitutes were made of softer elastic and referred to as \u201cstep-ins.\u201d Specialty corsets were created for wear during sports, dancing, and even pregnancy. Towards the end of the decade, as a natural shape became more popular, brassieres with cups and mild shaping were developed.<\/p>\n

Loose-fitting bloomers or knickers were made of silk or rayon and were gathered just above the knee.\u00a0 They came in a number of forms including one-piece camiknickers, teddy\u2019s, step-ins, or just plain drawers (which resembled slightly flared, bifurcated skirts).\u00a0 During the early years of the 1920s, calf-length petticoats were worn, but as hemlines rose, these garments were rendered obsolete.<\/p>\n

Sources<\/strong><\/em>: <\/p>\n
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Laubner, Ellie. Fashions of the Roaring Twenties<\/span><\/a>. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Co., 1996. 15-17<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mendes, Valerie and Amy De La Haye. 20th<\/sup> Century Fashion<\/span><\/a>. London: Thames & Hudson, 1999. 65<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Riordan, Teresa. Inventing Beauty<\/span><\/a>, New York: Broadway Books, 2004. 87<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  The boyish silhouette of the 1920s required special undergarments. Generally, a bandeau was used to flatten the bust with a single piece of fabric. Corsets and girdles were still heavily boned. Corset substitutes were made of softer elastic and referred to as \u201cstep-ins.\u201d Specialty corsets were created for wear during sports, dancing, and even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,91,1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3184"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}