Virginia Nicholson
1) All the rage: stories from the frontline of beauty: a history of pain, pleasure, and power 1860-1960
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
519 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"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' hats,...
Author
Language
English
Description
A panoramic social history that chronicles the quest for beauty in all its contradictions, and how it affects the female body.
Who decides what is fashionable? What clothes we wear, what hairstyles we create, what colour 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...
