All the Rage: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty: A History of Pain, Pleasure, and Power: 1860-1960 - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Pegasus BooksISBN-13:9781639367061ISBN-10:1639367063UPC:9781639367061Book Category:History, DesignBook Subcategory:Women, Fashion & Accessories, Textile & CostumeSize:9.00 x 5.90 x 1.90 inchesWeight:1.5807Product ID:SC7E4G3FB0
All the Rage: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty: A History of Pain, Pleasure, and Power: 1860-1960
A panoramic social history that chronicles the quest for beauty in all its contradictions--and how it affects the female body. "Women have been fat or slim, hyperthyroid or splenetic, sallow or pink-cheeked, slouched or erect, according to the prevalent notions of beauty." --Cecil Beaton, The Glass of Fashion Who decides what is fashionable? What clothes we wear, what hairstyles we create, what...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Pegasus BooksISBN-13:9781639367061ISBN-10:1639367063UPC:9781639367061Book Category:History, DesignBook Subcategory:Women, Fashion & Accessories, Textile & CostumeSize:9.00 x 5.90 x 1.90 inchesWeight:1.5807Product ID:SC7E4G3FB0
Virginia Nicholson is the author of Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939; Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived Without Men After the First World War; Millions Like Us: Women's Lives in War and Peace 1939-1949; Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s; How Was It For You? Women, Sex, Love and Power in the 1960s as well as Charleston: A Bloomsbury House...
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