Couple of links
Nov. 8th, 2017 03:08 pm"Boots, material culture and Georgian masculinities", by Matthew McCormick, published in Social History and available for free online. A really good take that complicates the typical Great Male Renunciation narrative.
ANNOUNCING THE UNDERPINNINGS MUSEUM TWITTER CONFERENCE - I've submitted, and you should too! Don't know if they'll take me, but I sent a proposal titled "Hold On and Suck In: 20th Century Views of 19th Century Corsets". (I thought "Hold On to the Bedpost" at first for the more obvious image, but what I went with is the actual line from GWTW.)
ANNOUNCING THE UNDERPINNINGS MUSEUM TWITTER CONFERENCE - I've submitted, and you should too! Don't know if they'll take me, but I sent a proposal titled "Hold On and Suck In: 20th Century Views of 19th Century Corsets". (I thought "Hold On to the Bedpost" at first for the more obvious image, but what I went with is the actual line from GWTW.)