A brief history of underwear: V&A exhibition goes big on the smalls

London museum to showcase fashion's supporting cast, from 19th-century whalebone corsets and bustles to David Beckham's modern boxers An exhibition devoted to the best supporting actors of the fashion world -the cotton, silk, lace, whalebone and elastic underwear that has for centuries smoothed detested lumps and scaffolded desirable curves - is to open next spring at the V&A museum in London. Among the exhibits of Undressed: A Brief History of Underwear is a fuchsia corset trimmed with black la...