Скачать или смотреть The Rise and Demise of the Girdle (Daphne Blake: Part 3)

This video took a long time to research but it's DONE! Big thank you to Amantia (our Velma), Olivia, Ivette, and Zuzu for volunteering their time and voices for this video.

Below are links and resources I used:

Nicole's Video On Dating Shoes:    • The Strangest Shoes in my Collection of An...  

5 pounds thinner girdle commercial:    • Vintage Commercial - Playtex Cross Your He...  

Books mentioned:
Uplift: The Bra in America by Jane Farrell-Beck and Colleen Gau
Nylon: The Story of a Fashion Revolution by Susannah Handley
Jiggle: (Re)Shaping American History by Wendy Burns-Ardolino
What We Wore: An Offbeat Social History of Women's Clothing, 1950 to 1980 by Ellen Melinkoffs

Dictionaries:
Oxford English Dictionary
1755 Samuel Johnson's Dictionary: https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/...

Journals:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/...

https://www.google.com/books/edition/...

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i...

Zipper invention: https://blog.library.si.edu/blog/2010...

Intro: (0:00)
The Question: (1:04)
Historical Tangent: (1:48)
The Girdle: (5:45)
The Panty Girdle: (9:34)
The Demise of the Girdle: (14:14)
To Layer or Not to Layer: (19:37)
Coming Up: (21:57)