They wore what?!
Subtitle: the weird history of fashion and beauty
By: Richard Platt.
Publisher: Two-Can
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Minnetonka, Minn
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781587285820; 9781587285844
Subjects: Fashion -- History -- Juvenile literature.; Beauty, Personal -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Description: "Describes changing ideas of fashion and beauty through history and around the world"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Simultaneously published under title: Would you believe-- in 1500, platform shoes were outlawed? London : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Fashionable figures; title: Ancient attitudes; title: Forbidden fashions; title: Smooth operator; title: Fashion victims; title: If you've got it, flaunt it; title: Miss beehive; title: A hat for all occasions; title: Wild and untamed; title: Bras and bindings; title: Crinolines and bustles; title: Waists like wasps; title: Squeezing and shaping; title: Skin deep; title: My feet are killing me; title: The unkindest cut of all; title: Why stop at the ear?; title: All my own teeth; title: Makeup and beauty; title: Poisonous potions; title: What's so weird about that?