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American beauty by Lois W. Banner · Booklabria

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American beauty

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First published: 1983
Language: English
Editions: 6

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"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.

Subjects: History
Women
Personal Beauty
Beauty, personal
Women, united states
Set in: United States

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