Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease by Carolyn A. Day

Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease

Carolyn A. Day

208 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction design health history sociology informative slow-paced
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During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, there was a tubercular 'moment' in which perceptions of the consumptive disease became inextricably tied to contemporary concepts of beauty, playing out in the clothing fashions of the day. With the r...

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