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The Lady's Dressing Room 1892: The woman's sanctum, care of the body, advice and recipes, guidance for the obese and the thin little hints and twenty one pages of advertisements
Lady Colin Campbell
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Hardcover. New.
"The Lady's Dressing-Room" was the indispensable companion of every 'well-bred woman' and 'great lady' at the close of the nineteenth century. In chapters on each part of the female form, as well as everything one might wish to adorn it with, copious details guide the reader through such imperfections as wrinkles, sunburn, warts and even baldness - for which a concoction of rum and onion is prescribed - without ever venturing upon too much scientific explanation. Such simple and politely euphemistic terminology as 'small black spots' and 'redness', combined with the occasional piece of hearsay or high society gossip, gives ... Read more
"The Lady's Dressing-Room" was the indispensable companion of every 'well-bred woman' and 'great lady' at the close of the nineteenth century. In chapters on each part of the female form, as well as everything one might wish to adorn it with, copious details guide the reader through such imperfections as wrinkles, sunburn, warts and even baldness - for which a concoction of rum and onion is prescribed - without ever venturing upon too much scientific explanation. Such simple and politely euphemistic terminology as 'small black spots' and 'redness', combined with the occasional piece of hearsay or high society gossip, gives ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Old House
Number of pages
384
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781873590621
SKU
9781873590621
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
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