Fashion and Women's Attitudes in the Nineteenth Century by C. Willett Cunnington

Fashion and Women's Attitudes in the Nineteenth Century

C. Willett Cunnington

352 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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The nineteenth century, according to C. Willett Cunnington, was a period when the cult of modesty was a tactical maneuver camouflaged as a virtue. It was also a period when euphemisms were used for such terms as "naked," "breast," and "leg," and w...

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