
All the Rage
''Sits you at the dressing table of history: a place of dreams, doubts, self-harm and hopes'' -Sunday Times
At the heart of this history is the female body. The century-span between the crinoline and the bikini witnessed more mutations in the ideal western woman''s body shape than at any other period. In this richly detailed account, Virginia Nicholson, described as ''one of the great social histo...
''Sits you at the dressing table of history: a place of dreams, doubts, self-harm and hopes'' -Sunday Times
At the heart of this history is the female body. The century-span between the crinoline and the bikini witnessed more mutations in the ideal western woman''s body shape than at any other period. In this richly detailed account, Virginia Nicholson, described as ''one of the great social histo...