The Corset and the Crinoline

The Corset and the CrinolineEver since Eve's first blush, clothes have girded, graced and transformed the female physique. Fascinating and insightful, The Corset and the Crinoline is an illustrated history of clothing's attendant underpinnings especially those that whittled the female waist to its most slender proportions. Reproduced from a rare 1868 fashion publication, each page reveals how the use of wood, whalebone, steel, hoops, and tight laces had a gripping influence on

crystal systems

and war as well as weapons fanciers will marvel at all the picturesque means here depicted of giving the coup de grace

naked economics

" This volume begins with Bartók's first published work for piano

a nationally famous teacher and craftsman

This book is an excellent introduction to the mathematics underlying the theory

accurately rendered illustrations depict a vast treasure trove of wearing apparel — furs

notoriously

simulations

Focusing on American furniture made between 1750 and 1850

psychedelic

and many less esoteric