By Alison Matthews David

ISBN-10: 1350005088

ISBN-13: 9781350005082

ISBN-10: 1845204492

ISBN-13: 9781845204495

From insidious homicide guns to blaze-igniting crinolines, garments has been the reason for loss of life, sickness and insanity all through heritage, by chance and layout. garments is designed to guard, safeguard and luxury us, but lurking among doubtless risk free clothing we discover hats laced with mercury, frocks weighted down with arsenic and actually 'drop-dead beautiful' robes.

Fabulously gory and ugly, Fashion Victims takes the reader on a desirable trip during the deadly background of women's, men's and kid's costume, in fantasy and fact. Drawing upon surviving type items and various visible and textual assets, encompassing louse-ridden army uniforms, bills of the fiery deaths of Oscar Wilde's half-sisters and dancer Isadora Duncan's unintended strangulation through entangled shawl; the ebook explores how clothing have tormented those that made and wore them, and harmed animals and the surroundings within the method. Vividly chronicling proof from Greek mythology to the current day, Matthews David places daily clothing less than the microscope and unpicks the darkish aspect of favor.

Fashion Victims is lavishly illustrated with over a hundred twenty five pictures and is a awesome source for everybody from students and scholars to model enthusiasts.

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