The lengths to which women have gone in search of the perfect figure has been explored in a fascinating new book examining the evolution of underwear over the ages.
The last 200 years has seen a dizzying amount of change as women progressed from boosting their curves with corsets and bum rolls in the late 18th century, to wearing the barely-there nude and wireless bras of today.
Costume historian Lucy Adlington, who has documented the fads in new book Stitches in Time: The Story Of The Clothes We Wear, says that Kim Kardashian would have been all the rage in the late 1700s with her voluptuous figure.
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