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A review by cthonautical
Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History by Richard Thompson Ford
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Has some strikingly bad information.
It has the "corsets bad and deform women" misinformation that is way too common and also not true. When you call what queen elizabeth I wore a corset and not a body, or continue calling it a corset when it turns into stays, you know it's getting into some misinfo.
Also perpetuates the myth that thousands of women burned due to crinolines, which historians say was an exaggeration. There are cases of a few women. But to say even 1000 is a stretch.
It was written by a lawyer and not a fashion historian, and that fact should definitely be taken into account.
It has the "corsets bad and deform women" misinformation that is way too common and also not true. When you call what queen elizabeth I wore a corset and not a body, or continue calling it a corset when it turns into stays, you know it's getting into some misinfo.
Also perpetuates the myth that thousands of women burned due to crinolines, which historians say was an exaggeration. There are cases of a few women. But to say even 1000 is a stretch.
It was written by a lawyer and not a fashion historian, and that fact should definitely be taken into account.