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Foundation garments for women were popular in the 1950s, bolstered by the fashion for Dior's wasp waists and an exaggerated feminine silhouette.
'Girl's Best Friend: Foundation Garments Modelled on...
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A woman in a dress dances to cocktail music as a female voice-over explains the features of the ‘Sarong’ girdle the woman is wearing beneath her clothes. The action freezes as the camera zooms in and...
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Looking back over her career, Annette Kellerman describes the perfect woman label she received at 26-years-old as 'the most ghastly thing in the world'.
This excerpt from an oral history interview...
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Two women dressed in dark underwear, silk stockings and shoes model two styles of Berlei corsetry. They stand on raised platforms in front of a plain backdrop, the larger space of the studio visible...
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A black-and-white advertisement for silent film A Daughter of the Gods (Herbert Brenon, USA, 1916).
The three-hour epic featuring Annette Kellerman screened at the St George's Theatre in Yarraville...
