Annals Of Fashion: The Dark Side Throughout History: History Of Fashion

"If graduates don't know their fashion history then they will be forever producing dull, uninspiring research."
Each chapter focuses on a different element of what has been tragically fashionable to develop the detail of the often ludicrous styles, which have been trendy throughout history and which shape the desire and frequently our bodies according to modern tastes. From those corsetted to the esthetic ideal of an Hourglass figure to the fatal phenomenon of "crinoline conflagrations" which alone killed 3,000 women in England in the following decade; if it was trendy and proven deadly, you'll find it to be corsetted to match the esthetic ideal of the hourglass figure.
This book is an insightfully revealing, and at times wry examination of some of the extreme and often injurious lengths that people have gone to in the pursuit of what was, and is, regarded as 'fashionable'.