SOCIAL SCIENCES
Shaskan, Kathy

How Underwear Got under There: A Brief History

(3) 4-6 Illustrated by Regan Dunnick. For those too mature for gross-out books but still prone to titter at nudity, this offering is perfect: it covers the history of underwear not chronologically but thematically--"Protection," "Modesty," etc.--and supplies cartoony illustrations, bizarre-seeming archival advertisements, and fact balloons spotlighting the weirdness of it all ("Some early American settlers had themselves sewn into their underwear for the winter").

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