American Beauty, Teil 11;Teil 13Knopf, 1983 - 369 Seiten "Drawing on memoirs, etiquette books, contemporary novels, and popular histories of the musical and theatrical stage, Lois W. Banner chronicles how women looked (and how they felt about how they looked) and how they wanted to look ... Here are the changing vogues ... American clothes as a revelation of sexual attitudes ... the shifting models of American beauty ... illustrated with 16 pages of photographs."--Jacket. |
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The Fashionables | 17 |
The SteelEngraving Lady | 45 |
The Underside of Fashion | 66 |
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