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Lingerie

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Underwear
Women's clothing

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  • Images from the collections
  • Works from the collections
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Images from the collections

Images about Lingerie

4 images from works
  • A lady buys some black garters to cheer up her sick husband. Wood engraving, c. 1900.
  • Ich will dich, du willst mich, ganz klar. Colour lithograph by D.U.T.T.A. and Augenblitz.
  • A woman in sexy lingerie holding a condom up asks her partner who wears an open frilled shirt and pin-striped trousers: 'Your condom or mine. I'll have safe sex or no sex"; an advertisement for safe sex by Stichting soa-bestrijding, Utrecht. Colour lithograph.
  • The torso of a semi-naked woman in sexy lingerie standing before a man in jeans representing an advertisement for safe sex by the SOA Stichting, Utrecht. Colour lithograph by Frederice van Faassen.

Works from the collections

8 works

    • Pictures
    • Online

    Ich will dich, du willst mich, ganz klar. Colour lithograph by D.U.T.T.A. and Augenblitz.

    | Date: [between 1990 and 1999] | Reference: 674112i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A woman in sexy lingerie holding a condom up asks her partner who wears an open frilled shirt and pin-striped trousers: 'Your condom or mine. I'll have safe sex or no sex"; an advertisement for safe sex by Stichting soa-bestrijding, Utrecht. Colour lithograph.

    | Date: [between 1990 and 1999] | Reference: 671415i
    • Books

    International loving fashions / Lady of Paris (UK) Ltd.

    Lady of Paris (UK) Ltd. | Date: [approximately 1981]
    • Books

    Dress and undress : a history of women's underwear / Elizabeth Ewing.

    Ewing, Elizabeth. | Date: 1981, ©1978
    • Books

    An intimate affair : women, lingerie, and sexuality / Jill Fields.

    Fields, Jill, 1954- | Date: [2007], ©2007

Related topics

Safe Sex
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Underwear

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