The Best Lingerie in <em>Vogue,</em> from the 1970s to Today — vogue.com

Fashion’s current fixation with all things seventies isn’t limited to suede and separates; rather, the fascination with the era awakened our curiosity about what lies beneath the body-loving silhouette of the disco era, and the years afterward. So naturally, we slipped into the archive to examine how lingerie has changed with the times. The “Me Decade,” which favored clinging knits of the sort famously whipped up by Halston and Stephen Burrows, required minimal (or no) foundations, in keeping with the feminist bra-burning ethos of the era; then came the eighties, wherein the figure, if not the economy was boosted by the wired Wonderbra. Inspired by Madonna, innerwear came out from under, only to be banished altogether in the nineties by the waif’s uniform, the slip dress. And now of course, that look is enjoying a comeback that, this time round, coexists with fashions, and lingerie, that celebrate the bella figura.

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