summer underwear 40s - 5 - thechicflaneuse

Glancing through the archives of Time Life we found this fashion editorial of 1949 on summer underwear. Photographer Nina Leen immortalizes the still very fluid lines of the underwear before the arrival of the 1950’s structured corsetry.

summer underwear 40s - 4 - thechicflaneuse

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summer underwear 40s - 10 - thechicflaneuse

summer underwear 40s - 3 - thechicflaneuse

summer underwear 40s - 8 - thechicflaneuse

summer underwear 40s - 2 - thechicflaneuse

summer underwear 40s - 1 - thechicflaneuse

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summer underwear 40s - 6 - thechicflaneuse

Image source and copyright: TIME LIFE archive