num_pages: 264
description: The first comprehensive study of womens dress reform During the latter half of the nineteenth and the first decade of the twentieth centuries books periodicals and newspapers were rich in discussions related to womens roles health beauty and dress. Many believed that restrictive and unwieldy womens fashions compromised health distorted womens true physical beauty and curtailed the potential role of women in society. Reforming Womens Fashion 18501920 focuses on the efforts toward reforming womens dress that took place in Europe and America during this period and the types of garments adopted by women to overcome the challenges posed by fashionable dress.
language: English
title: Reforming Women's Fashion, 1850-1920: Politics, Health, and Art
publisher: The Kent State University Press