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Hardcover Perfection: 400 Years of Women's Quest for Beauty Book
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ISBN: 0300264585

ISBN13: 9780300264586

Perfection: 400 Years of Women's Quest for Beauty

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A colourful account of women's health, beauty, and cosmetic aids, from stays and corsets to today's viral trends

Victorian women ate arsenic to achieve an ideal, pale complexion, while in the 1790s balloon corsets were all the rage, designed to make the wearer appear pregnant. Women of the eighteenth century applied blood from a black cat's tail to problem skin, while doctors in the 1880s promoted woollen underwear to keep colds at...

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