| Description |
48 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Note |
Simultaneously published under title: Would you believe-- in 1500, platform shoes were outlawed? London : Oxford University Press, 2007. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 45) and index. |
| Contents |
Fashionable figures -- Ancient attitudes -- Forbidden fashions -- Smooth operator -- Fashion victims -- If you've got it, flaunt it -- Miss beehive -- Hat for all occasions -- Wild and untamed -- Bras and bindings -- Crinolines and bustles -- Waists like wasps -- Squeezing and shaping -- Skin deep -- My feet are killing me -- Unkindest cut of all -- Why stop at the ear? -- All my own teeth -- Makeup and beauty -- Poisonous potions -- What's so weird about that? |
| Summary |
"Describes changing ideas of fashion and beauty through history and around the world"--Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Fashion -- History -- Juvenile literature.
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Beauty, Personal -- History -- Juvenile literature.
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Fashion -- History.
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Beauty, Personal -- History.
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| ISBN |
9781587285820 |
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1587285827 |
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9781587285844 paperback |
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1587285843 paperback |
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