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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b1200003.
- catalog created "1983.".
- catalog date "1983".
- catalog date "1983.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1983.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. [345]-352.".
- catalog description "The fashionables -- Beauty as business: the early development of the commercial beauty culture -- The ideal woman: the steel-engraving lady -- The underside of fashion -- The feminist challenge and fashion's response -- The voluptuous woman: from Bouguereau to the British blondes -- The voluptuous woman in eclipse: Lillian Russell, Lillie Langtry, and the advance of naturalness -- The Gibson girl -- The new order -- The culture of beauty in the early twentieth century -- Men -- The pursuit of beauty as woman's role: the beauty contest, 1800-1921 -- The history of women and beauty since 1921.".
- catalog extent "viii, 369 p., [16] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "American beauty.".
- catalog identifier "039451923X :".
- catalog isFormatOf "American beauty.".
- catalog issued "1983".
- catalog issued "1983.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Knopf : distributed by Random House,".
- catalog relation "American beauty.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "Beauty, Personal History.".
- catalog subject "HQ1410 .B36 1983".
- catalog subject "Women United States History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The fashionables -- Beauty as business: the early development of the commercial beauty culture -- The ideal woman: the steel-engraving lady -- The underside of fashion -- The feminist challenge and fashion's response -- The voluptuous woman: from Bouguereau to the British blondes -- The voluptuous woman in eclipse: Lillian Russell, Lillie Langtry, and the advance of naturalness -- The Gibson girl -- The new order -- The culture of beauty in the early twentieth century -- Men -- The pursuit of beauty as woman's role: the beauty contest, 1800-1921 -- The history of women and beauty since 1921.".
- catalog title "American beauty / Lois W. Banner.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".