The Penguin Social History of Britain noted that "by the 1920s newspapers were filled with advertisements for 'lingerie' and 'undies' which would have been classed as indecent a generation earlier" [REF].
Looking back at this period, Graves and Hodge noted the protracted course that "daring female fashions had always taken .. from brothel to stage, then on to Bohemia, to Society, to Society's maids, to the mill-girl and lastly to the suburban woman" [REF].