Platt, Richard.

They wore what?! : the weird history of fashion and beauty / Richard Platt. - Minnetonka, Minn. : Two-Can, 2007. - 48 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.

Simultaneously published under title: Would you believe-- in 1500, platform shoes were outlawed? London : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 45) and index.

Fashionable figures -- Ancient attitudes -- Forbidden fashions -- Smooth operator -- Fashion victims -- If you've got it, flaunt it -- Miss beehive -- A hat for all occasions -- Wild and untamed -- Bras and bindings -- Crinolines and bustles -- Waists like wasps -- Squeezing and shaping -- Skin deep -- My feet are killing me -- The unkindest cut of all -- Why stop at the ear? -- All my own teeth -- Makeup and beauty -- Poisonous potions -- What's so weird about that?

"Describes changing ideas of fashion and beauty through history and around the world"--Provided by publisher.

ISBN: 9781587285820 9781587285844 (pbk.)

LCCN: 2006039159

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Fashion--History.
Beauty, Personal--History.

LC Class. No.: GT518 / .P57 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 391.009