Includes index. Bibliography: p. 287-316. 11,274 Bill Smoot Request.
Content Note
Why of fashion -- Fig leaf: explanations of clothing and fashion -- Fashion and eroticism: the psychoanalytic approach -- New thory of fashion: sexual beauty and the ideal self -- Fashion and erotic beauty in the Victorian period -- Victorian fashion -- Victorian sexuality -- Victorian ideal of feminine beauty -- Artificial beauty, or the morality of dress and adornment -- Revolt against fashion: dress reform and aesthetic costume -- Foundations of fashion -- Corset controversy -- Attractions of underclothes -- Into the twentieth century -- Changing ideal of feminine beauty.