Hope in a Jar
How did powder and paint, once scorned as immoral, become indispensable to millions of respectable women? How did a "kitchen physic," as homemade cosmetics were once called, become a multibillion-dollar industry? And how did men finally take over that rarest of institutions, a woman''s business?
In Hope in a Jar, historian Kathy Peiss gives us the first full-scale social history of America''s beaut...
How did powder and paint, once scorned as immoral, become indispensable to millions of respectable women? How did a "kitchen physic," as homemade cosmetics were once called, become a multibillion-dollar industry? And how did men finally take over that rarest of institutions, a woman''s business?
In Hope in a Jar, historian Kathy Peiss gives us the first full-scale social history of America''s beaut...
