Health, Art and Reason: Dress Reformers of the 19th Century"Artistic, hygienic, and rational are not the most familiar words today but a hundred and twenty years ago they evoked the highest sentiments and became powerful weapons in an attack which developed not merely on the dress of the time but on the concept of fashion itself. It is the story of this movement, its members and the clothes they wore that the author tells."--Book jacket. |
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PreRaphaelite Clothing | 24 |
Grecian Fillets | 36 |
The Strongminded Woman | 59 |
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19th century admired aesthetic Aglaia appeared artistic dress beauty Bloomer bodice breeches Campian certainly Charles Reade clothes colour corsets costume crinolette crinoline discussed divided skirt Dr Jaeger drapery drawings dress reform dyes early eighties English fashionable dress fashions in dress female followed G. F. Watts George du Maurier girls gown Grecian Greek hair haute couture Haweis HEADPIECE CHAPTER Henry Holiday heroine Holman Hunt hygienic illustrated included International Health Exhibition Kettledrum knee-breeches ladies later Liberty's London look Madre Natura masculine mediaeval Millais Miss Morris natural Oscar Wilde painting Pall Mall Gazette period platform woman PreRaphaelite published Punch Queen Rational Dress Rational Dress Society Robert Elsmere Rossetti Shaw silk sleeves social strong-minded woman style of dress taste in dress trousers Venus W. S. Gilbert waist Walter Crane Watteau toilette Watts wearer wearing Woman's World women women's dress wool wore working-class worn young