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Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975 

Style & Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975. By Susannah Walker (Lexington, Kentucky: University of Kentucky Press, 2007....

The silly saga of saggy drawers 

By JILL FIELDS

Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poem "Underwear " begins, "I didn't get much sleep last night thinking about underwear." The...

Fashion and its Social Agendas: Class, Gender, and Identity in Clothing - Book Review 

By Diana Crane (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. x plus 294 pp. $20.00/paper). By Diana Crane (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,...

Bound to Please: A History of the Victorian Corset - Book Review 

Bound to Please: A History of the Victorian Corset. By Leigh Summers (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2001. 302pp. $68/cloth $24.50/paper). Bound to...

'Fighting The Corsetless Evil': Shaping Corsets And Culture, 1900-1930 

The debates in the early 20th century over women wearing corsets are examined, focusing on the relationship between social custom and women's...