Show us your knickers Victoria (& Albert)

Undressed: a Brief History of Underwear, which opens at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London this week (16 April-12 March), exposes the origins and evolution of fashion’s usually hidden garments: crinolines, corsets, bras, knickers, boxers, stockings and tights.Among the more than 200 items on show are cotton drawers worn by Queen Victoria’s mother, a First World War austerity corset in paper and a pair of Vivienne Westwood flesh-coloured leggings with a strategically-placed mir