Smartypants: the fart-filtering future of underwear

We live in an age of undies innovation: from self-medicating bras to briefs that smell of breakfast or hide a weapon (and that's not even a euphemism)

Corsets and crinolines, boxers and bras " the history of underwear is also an intimate history of changing attitudes to gender, sex, hygiene and morality. But the smalls on show in the Victoria and Albert Museum's new exhibition, Undressed, tell a story of technology as much as social trends.

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