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From Paris Corset with Back Lacing 
1939 
  
Gelatin silver print 
9 10/16 x 7 13/16 ins 
  
Victoria and Albert Museum 
 
LL/33279 
  
The printed ad copy links the city of romance, bondage, and art with the expectations of nighttime pleasures: "Paris puts you back in laced corsets and here they are. Detolle made the extreme, back-lacing corset . . . To bind you in for the Velasquez silhouette. This corset is specifically for evening."
 
Vogue (September 15, 1939), 76; cited in Nancy Hall-Duncan, The History of Fashion Photography (New York: Alpine, 1979), 64.
 
For an analysis of this photograph: Juliet Hacking (ed.), 2012, Photography: The Whole Story, (Prestel), pp. 264-265 
 

 
  
 
  
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