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All the rage : stories from the frontline of beauty : a history of pain, pleasure, and power 1860-1960

All the rage : stories from the frontline of beauty : a history of pain, pleasure, and power 1860-1960

Book 2024

"Who decides what is fashionable? What clothes we wear, what hairstyles we create, what color lipstick we adore, what body shape is "all the rage". The story of female adornment from 1860-1960 is intriguingly unbuttoned in this glorious social history. Virginia Nicholson has long been fascinated by the way we women present ourselves-or are encouraged to present ourselves-to the world. In this book, we learn about rational dress, suffragettes' hat...