Le Pantalon Féminin (Un chapitre inédit de l’Histoire du Costume)

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Le Pantalon Féminin (Un chapitre inédit de l’Histoire du Costume) by Pierre Dufay, preface by d’Armand Silvestre (Charles Carrington, Librairie Des Bibliophiles Parisiens, 1916, Paris)
7.75″ X 5.75″, xv 584pp., original soft wraps protected by a clear archival dust cover. Deckled edges. Some pages remain uncut. Index, table of contents, errata, and 5 pages of ads in the back. Good condition for age, some tears to the edges of cover, stain on the back. A rare find with it’s illustrations intact.

Originally published in 1906, this edition is the “Nouvelle edition” revised and greatly expanded with an engraved frontispiece and 20 full-page engravings within. “an erotic excursion into the delights of female underwear, devotes a whole chapter to the open and closed type of knickers, coming to the not surprising conclusion that the former could be seen as an invitation to a sexual encounter; the excitement of the can-can lay in the promise of this titillating form of underwear, as well as the display of layers of frills in both petticoats and pants.”