Platt, Richard.

Moda hakkında çılgın gerçekler / Inanılmaz ama moda hakkında çılgın gerçekler by Richard Platt; translated by Filiz Emre. - Istanbul : Türkiye İş Bankası, 2008. - 48 p. : ill ; 25 cm. - Genel Yayın Numarası . - Genel Yayın Numarası .

Previously published under title: Would you believe-- in 1500, platform shoes were outlawed?

Includes dictionary and index p(46-48).

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

Describes some of the peculiar fashion and beauty trends practiced people throughout history, from the ancient past to the twenty-first century, and explains how the styles became popular.

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Beauty, Personal--History.
Fashion--History.
Personal appearance--History.