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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Virtually unknown in the West Syrian lingerie is racy attire that is widely popular throughout the Middle Eas This lingerie forms a totally over-the-top fashion niche with intimates that blink sing vibrate flash lights and are adorned with everything from faux fur and artificial flowers to miniature feathered birds and colorful plastic toy cell phones. This blindingly colorful willfully maximalist apparel is sure to fascinate anyone who appreciates audacity whimsy and unfettered imagination in design. In addition its existence offers a new window into women’s lives and experience in Middle Eastern society. In Syria where it forms an accepted part of everyday culture the lingerie is displayed openly in shops and souks and constitutes an important element of weddings and marriage. Brides- to-be are given drawerfuls as gifts by their mothers and female relatives buy it for themselves or husbands buy it for wives. But despite its wide-ranging popularity it has remained almost entirely unheard of in the Western world. (LL)